The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
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2024
- 04-24 - Sibilance: Definition and Examples
- 04-17 - Clarifying the Conditional Tense
- 04-10 - What Is Epenthesis?
- 04-03 - Quotations Within Quotations
- 03-27 - Consonance: Definition and Examples
- 03-20 - Making Sense of Morphemes
- 03-13 - Elision: Definition and Examples
- 03-06 - Assonance: Can the Versatile Adverb Modify a Noun?
- 02-28 - Assonance: Definition and Examples
- 02-21 - Arranging Multiple Adjectives
- 02-14 - Alliteration: Definition and Examples
- 02-07 - Hyphenated Compound Words
- 01-31 - Using sic in 2024
- 01-24 - In the Zone: It's About Time
- 01-17 - Year-End Quiz: 2023
2023
- 12-13 - Mnemonic Devices
- 12-06 - Using Brackets: Changing a Quote and More
- 11-29 - What Is Syntax?
- 11-15 - So Tell Me—When Is It Correct to Use So
- 11-08 - Here Is vs. Here Are
- 11-01 - Cumulative Sentence: Definition and Examples
- 10-25 - Anastrophe
- 10-18 - Past Progressive Tense: Definition and Examples
- 10-11 - Figuring Out the Trick Behind [sic]
- 10-04 - Single Quotation Marks: Uses and Examples
- 09-27 - What Is Aspect in Grammar?
- 09-20 - Shall I or Will I Use the Right Auxiliary Verb?
- 09-13 - Periodic Sentence: Definition and Examples
- 09-06 - Misspoken or Mispronounced Words and Phrases
- 08-30 - & What About the Ampersand?
- 08-23 - Past Perfect Progressive
- 08-16 - Rules Do Change
- 08-09 - Balanced Sentences Usage and Examples
- 08-02 - Tackling More Tricky Word Choices: Issue vs. Problem
- 07-26 - Transitional Words and Phrases
- 07-19 - Tackling More Tricky Word Choices: Another Look at Number Is and Number Are
- 07-12 - Verbals: Definition & Examples
- 07-05 - Are We Hyphenating Well?
- 06-28 - Tackling More Tricky Word Choices: As, Because, and Since
- 06-21 - What Is a Cleft Sentence?
- 06-14 - Grasping the Grammatical Expletive
- 06-07 - Apocope Definition and Examples
- 05-31 - Would vs. Used To
- 05-24 - What Is An Affix?
- 05-17 - Is It Bachelors Degree or Bachelor's Degree?
- 05-10 - Nominal Number: Definition and Examples
- 05-03 - How to Use Only Correctly
- 04-26 - What Is a Sentence Modifier?
- 04-19 - Should We Use There Is and There Are?
- 04-12 - Compound Subject: Definition and Examples
- 04-05 - What Is a Comma Splice?
- 03-29 - What Is a Root Word?
- 03-22 - What Is Apposition in Grammar?
- 03-15 - What Is Subject-Verb Concord?
- 03-08 - Motif: Definition and Examples
- 03-01 - What Are Qualifiers and Intensifiers?
- 02-22 - Objective Case: Usage and Examples
- 02-15 - What Is a Stative Verb?
- 02-08 - What Is a Predicate Pronoun?
- 02-01 - Present Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Tense
- 01-25 - What Is a Predicate Adjective?
- 01-18 - What Is the Vocative Case in English?
- 01-11 - Year-End Quiz: 2022
2022
- 12-14 - Predicate Nouns: Usage and Examples
- 12-07 - Object Complements: Usage and Examples
- 11-30 - Nominative Case: Usage and Examples
- 11-16 - Elliptical Sentence Constructions
- 11-09 - Subject Complements: Usage and Examples
- 11-02 - Interjections: What They Are and Examples
- 10-26 - When to Use (and Not Use) a Comma Before Which
- 10-19 - Ergative Verbs: Usage and Examples
- 10-12 - Interrogative Sentences: Usage and Examples
- 10-05 - Subjective Case: Usage and Examples
- 09-28 - Exclamatory Sentences: Usage and Examples
- 09-21 - What Is a Homophone? (Examples and Usage)
- 09-14 - Endemic vs. Epidemic vs. Pandemic
- 09-07 - Declarative Sentences: Usage and Examples
- 08-31 - Hitting the Right Notes with Salutations and Closings
- 08-24 - Imperative Mood Explanation and Examples
- 08-17 - Staying on Target with Ranges
- 08-10 - What Is the Possessive Case?
- 08-03 - Becoming Savvy with Sentence Structures: Part Three
- 07-27 - Bring vs. Take: What's the Difference?
- 07-20 - Becoming Savvy with Sentence Structures: Part Two
- 07-13 - How Do You Write Percentages?
- 07-06 - Becoming Savvy with Sentence Structures: Part One
- 06-29 - Is It Fourth of July or 4th of July?
- 06-22 - Diving Back into Dialogue: Part II
- 06-15 - If I Was vs. If I Were
- 06-08 - Is It Father's Day or Fathers Day?
- 06-01 - Misplaced Modifiers: What They Are and How to Fix Them
- 05-25 - Diving Back into Dialogue: Part I
- 05-18 - What Are Split Infinitives?
- 05-11 - Began vs. Begun
- 05-04 - Mrs., Ms., Miss: Understanding the Difference
- 04-27 - Using Nor Properly
- 04-20 - Colon vs. Semicolon
- 04-13 - Writing Zip Codes
- 04-06 - American vs. British English: Verbs
- 04-01 - English Grammar in 2022: Make Way for the March of Emojis
- 03-30 - What's the Difference Between a Dash and an Ellipsis?
- 03-23 - Commas in Lists
- 03-16 - What Are Intensive Pronouns?
- 03-09 - Dangling Infinitives
- 03-02 - What Is the Simple Past Tense?
- 02-23 - What Are Correlative Conjunctions?
- 02-16 - Ordinal vs. Cardinal Numbers
- 02-09 - Abbreviating Professional Titles and Academic Degrees
- 02-02 - Types of Nouns
- 01-26 - Past Perfect Tense
- 01-19 - Run-On Sentences
- 01-12 - Is It Doctoral Degree or Doctorate Degree?
- 01-05 - Year-End Quiz: 2021
2021
- 12-15 - Plural Possessive Noun
- 12-08 - Coordinating Conjunctions
- 12-01 - Present Progressive Tense
- 11-17 - Cultural Identity
- 11-10 - Personal Pronouns
- 11-03 - English Verb Conjugation
- 10-27 - Negative Words
- 10-20 - Lawsuits and the Missing Apostrophe
- 10-13 - Contractions in English
- 10-06 - Compound Sentences: What Is a Compound Sentence?
- 09-29 - Ellipsis Four-Dot Method
- 09-22 - Relative Pronouns: What Is a Relative Pronoun?
- 09-15 - Quotation Marks for Emphasis
- 09-08 - Superlative Adjectives: What Is a Superlative Adjective?
- 09-01 - Infinitives
- 08-25 - Subordinating Conjunctions
- 08-18 - Inanimate Object
- 08-11 - Phrasal Verbs
- 08-04 - Indefinite Pronouns
- 07-28 - Interrogative Pronouns
- 07-21 - What Is an Adverbial Phrase?
- 07-14 - Object Pronouns
- 07-07 - Subject Pronouns
- 06-30 - What Does Metaphor Mean?
- 06-23 - Capitalizing Titles
- 06-16 - Punctuation in a Quote
- 06-09 - Comparative Adjectives
- 06-02 - What Are Subordinate Clauses?
- 05-26 - Em Dash: What Is an Em Dash?
- 05-19 - What Are Possessive Pronouns?
- 05-12 - Semicolon Use in Lists
- 05-05 - Punctuation for Abbreviations
- 04-28 - What Is a Transitive Verb?
- 04-21 - Which vs. That
- 04-14 - Compound Predicates
- 04-07 - Dependent and Independent Clauses
- 03-31 - How to Use i.e. or e.g.
- 03-24 - Ending a Sentence in a Preposition
- 03-17 - Demonstrative Pronouns
- 03-10 - Continually vs. Continuously
- 03-03 - Simple Predicates
- 02-24 - What Are Irregular Plural Nouns?
- 02-17 - What Is a Palindrome?
- 02-10 - What Is an Imperative Sentence?
- 02-03 - What Is a Linking Verb?
- 01-27 - How Long Is a Paragraph?
- 01-20 - The Present Perfect Tense
- 01-13 - What Is Hyperbole?
- 01-06 - Year-End Quiz: 2020
2020
- 12-16 - The Diversity of American Dialects
- 12-09 - The Spell of the Holidays
- 12-02 - Are Euphemisms Useful?
- 11-18 - That's nyooz to me
- 11-11 - Restoring the Meanings of Misused Words
- 11-04 - Dangling Phrases and Clauses
- 10-28 - Clipping Syllables to Sizes We Like
- 10-21 - We the People, or…?
- 10-14 - Expressing Possession of Gerunds
- 10-07 - Two More Reasons Pronouns Plague Us
- 09-30 - Expressing Possession Greater Than One
- 09-23 - Yet More Pronoun Pitfalls
- 09-16 - Hunting for Help with Hyphens
- 09-02 - Abbreviation, Acronym, or Initialism: Fixing (not Mixing) Identity
- 08-26 - I Subject, Your Honor
- 08-19 - A Study of Style: The U.S. Military
- 08-12 - The Subjunctive Mood
- 08-05 - Idiom: The DNA of Cliché
- 07-29 - Some Confusing Words
- 07-22 - A Midsummer's Musing on Miscellany
- 07-15 - Clichés Are Too Easy
- 07-08 - To Restrict or Not to Restrict: That Is the Question
- 07-01 - Connecting Sentences with Commas and Semicolons
- 06-24 - Exchanging English Over the Pond: U.S. and U.K. Part IV
- 06-17 - The Dictionary Definition of Racism
- 06-10 - Exchanging English Over the Pond: U.S. and U.K. Part III
- 06-03 - Sweating the Small Stuff
- 05-27 - Exchanging English Over the Pond: U.S. and U.K. Part II
- 05-20 - Similes and Metaphors
- 05-13 - Exchanging English Over the Pond: U.S. and U.K. Part I
- 05-06 - To Split or Not To Split
- 04-29 - How Does a Word Become a Word?
- 04-22 - Assure vs. Ensure vs. Insure
- 04-15 - Staying Woke* with New Words
- 04-08 - Leonard's Ten Commandments
- 04-01 - Leaning on the Evolution of Meanings
- 03-25 - Pronoun Tips
- 03-18 - Writing with Nimble Variation
- 03-11 - Sabotage in Broad Daylight?
- 03-04 - Writing with Meaningful Restraint
- 02-26 - Anymore, Any more; Anyone, Any one; Everyone, Every one; Everybody, Every body
- 02-19 - Writing with Rhythm and Sound
- 02-12 - Don't Put It in Writing
- 02-05 - Staying Regular with Irregular Verbs
- 01-29 - Plural and Possessive Forms with Names Ending in y or i
- 01-22 - Clearing the Air of Errors in English
- 01-15 - 2019's Word of the Year is Inclusive, Not Divisive
- 01-08 - Year-End Quiz: 2019
2019
- 12-18 - Mixing Miscellany Again
- 12-11 - Christmas 'Log Review
- 12-04 - Diving Back into Dialogue: Part II
- 11-20 - Misbegotten Views on Gotten
- 11-13 - Diving Back into Dialogue: Part I
- 11-06 - Colons with Lists
- 10-30 - Composing Comparisons
- 10-23 - Ellipses
- 10-16 - Composing with Conjunctive Adverbs
- 10-09 - Play It Again, Sam
- 10-02 - Digging Out Extra Details, Clauses, and Words
- 09-25 - Bad vs. Badly
- 09-18 - Allot vs. A Lot, Allowed vs. Aloud, All ready vs. Already, All right vs. Alright, Altar vs. Alter, All together vs. Altogether
- 09-04 - Picking Proper Pronouns: Part I
- 08-28 - Fewer vs. Less
- 08-21 - Practicing Parallelism
- 08-14 - Singular They Part III
- 08-07 - Protecting Writing from Plagiarism
- 07-31 - How Can They Be Singular?
- 07-24 - Drawing the Subject Out of Hiding
- 07-17 - More on "More Ear-itating Word Abuse"
- 07-10 - Sentence Sequence and Transition
- 07-03 - How Did They Get In Here?
- 06-26 - Securing the Subject of Subjects
- 06-19 - Predicating Our Knowledge of Predicates
- 06-12 - Adjectives and Adverbs: Forms for Comparison
- 06-05 - More Ear-itating Word Abuse
- 05-29 - Forging Sentence Ties That Bind
- 05-22 - What's Up With Up?
- 05-15 - Becoming Savvy with Sentence Structures: Part Three
- 05-08 - Declining or Just Changing?
- 05-01 - Becoming Savvy with Sentence Structures: Part Two
- 04-24 - What Does vs. What Do
- 04-17 - Becoming Savvy with Sentence Structures: Part One
- 04-10 - Some vs. Any
- 04-03 - Overseeing Omissions in Writing
- 03-27 - Nuggets from Ol' Diz
- 03-20 - Detaining the Double Negative
- 03-13 - I'll Be Hanged! Or, Have I Just Gone Missing?
- 03-06 - Navigating Negative Constructions
- 02-27 - The Media Made Me Do It
- 02-20 - Adjectives and Adverbs: Another Look at -ly
- 02-13 - Can vs. May
- 02-06 - Checking In on Worn-Out Words and Phrases: First Quarter 2019
- 01-30 - A Real Feather-Ruffler
- 01-23 - Notwithstanding, Can We Withstand Confusion of Meaning?
- 01-16 - Have You Ever Heard These 25 Obscure English Words?
- 01-09 - Year-End Quiz
2018
- 12-19 - More Mulling Over Miscellany
- 12-12 - What Is a Gerund and Why Care?
- 12-05 - Staying on Target with Ranges
- 11-28 - Basically, Why Your Cohort Isn’t Your Buddy
- 11-14 - Exploring Some English Miscellany
- 11-07 - Orwell and Newspeak
- 10-31 - Clarifying the Conditional Tense
- 10-24 - Quotations Within Quotations
- 10-17 - Making Sense of Morphemes
- 10-10 - Word Nerds: Verbal Custodians Trapped in a Time Warp
- 10-03 - Can the Versatile Adverb Modify a Noun?
- 09-26 - Commas Before and in a Series
- 09-19 - Still on the Stakeout for Worn-Out Words and Phrases
- 09-12 - When Jumble Fumbles
- 09-05 - Arranging Multiple Adjectives
- 08-29 - In and of Itself, Continual vs. Continuous
- 08-22 - Punctuating Compounds That Precede
- 08-15 - More Mangled Language and Pompous Usages to Avoid
- 08-08 - In the Zone: It's About Time
- 08-01 - Don't End a Sentence with a Preposition—Where Did This Myth Come From?
- 07-25 - So Tell Me—When Is It Correct to Use So?
- 07-18 - I Can't Not Write This
- 07-11 - More on Misspoken or Mispronounced Words and Phrases
- 07-04 - Writing Addresses
- 06-27 - Giving Special Days Their Grammatical Due
- 06-20 - Use of Brackets
- 06-13 - Misspoken or Mispronounced Words and Phrases
- 06-06 - Pronouncing the Word Blessed
- 05-30 - Figuring Out the Trick Behind [sic]
- 05-23 - The Word Nerd: Six Pitfalls Writers (and Others) Should Avoid
- 05-16 - & What About the Ampersand?
- 05-09 - Confusing Possessives Revisited
- 05-02 - Shall I or Will I Use the Right Auxiliary Verb?
- 04-25 - Rules Do Change
- 04-18 - Quality, Service, Value, Needs: Top Dogs on Our Writing Most-Wanted List
- 04-11 - A _____ Walks Into a Bar
- 04-04 - Are We Hyphenating Well?
- 03-28 - Language of Sports
- 03-21 - Tackling More Tricky Word Choices: Issue vs. Problem
- 03-14 - Using Commas, Semicolons, and Colons Within Sentences
- 03-07 - Tackling More Tricky Word Choices: Another Look at Number Is and Number Are
- 02-28 - Oxford Comma Dispute Settled
- 02-21 - Tackling More Tricky Word Choices: As, Because, and Since
- 02-14 - You Lost Me After "Feb"
- 02-07 - Grasping the Grammatical Expletive
- 01-31 - Capitalization of Academic Degrees
- 01-24 - Would vs. Used To
- 01-17 - Why a Y Tells a Lie
- 01-10 - Year-End Quiz
2017
- 12-20 - Worn-Out Words and Phrases: Resolving to Keep Writing Fresh in 2018
- 12-13 - Whoever Would Use Whomever: Read On
- 12-06 - Hitting the Right Notes with Salutations and Closings
- 11-29 - Whom Abuse Is Rampant
- 11-15 - Taking Charge of Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
- 11-08 - Whoever vs. Whomever
- 11-01 - Taking Charge of Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
- 10-25 - Who vs. Whom
- 10-18 - Collecting the Truth About Collective Nouns
- 10-11 - Pop Culture Fallacies
- 10-04 - Commonly Confused Words That Bring Bumps to Writing
- 09-27 - Effect vs. Affect
- 09-20 - How Are You—Good, Well, or Fine?
- 09-13 - Apostrophes with Names Ending in s, ch, or z
- 09-06 - Diving Back Into Different From and Different Than
- 08-30 - A Really, Really Awesome List
- 08-23 - Graphic Ignorance
- 08-16 - Striking the Surplus from Tautologies (Follow-Up 2)
- 08-09 - Striking the Surplus from Tautologies (Follow-Up 1)
- 08-02 - Putting Out the Patrol for Made-Up Words
- 07-25 - Stubborn Stinkaroos
- 07-19 - Worn-Out Words and Phrases: 2017 (Follow-up)
- 07-12 - Understanding Verb Particles
- 07-05 - Reflexive Pronouns
- 06-28 - Worn-Out Words and Phrases: 2017
- 06-21 - I vs. Me
- 06-14 - In Behalf Of vs. On Behalf Of
- 06-07 - Proper Prepositional Pairing
- 05-31 - Media Watch
- 05-24 - Word Choice: Small Is Still Better Than Big
- 05-17 - When to Add s to a Verb
- 05-10 - Tightening Verb Phrases for Making an Engine That Purrs
- 05-03 - That’s What That Means?
- 04-26 - Striking the Surplus from Tautologies
- 04-19 - Writing Dates and Times
- 04-12 - Whether to Give a Hoot About Moot
- 04-05 - Comma Chameleon
- 03-29 - Lack of Commas Costs Company Millions in Dispute
- 03-22 - A/An vs. The
- 03-15 - Titles of Books, Plays, Articles, etc.: Underline? Italics? Quotation Marks?
- 03-08 - Choices vs. Options and Alternatives
- 03-01 - Small Dishes
- 02-22 - Hyphenation with Numbers and Units of Measure
- 02-15 - Words Can Be Bullies
- 02-08 - A Fine Distinction
- 02-01 - Spell Check Overreach
- 01-25 - In Print Is Forever
- 01/18 - Verbal Illusions
- 01/11 - Among vs. Between
- 01/04 - Year-End Quiz
2016
- 12/13 - Lie vs. Lay
- 12/06 - Annual Christmas 'Log Review
- 11/30 - Go Trendy, Stay Alive
- 11/15 - Beware the Internet
- 11/08 - The G-Rated Truth
- 11/01 - Apostrophes with Words Ending in s
- 10/25 - Big Words We Can Use
- 10/18 - Attention-Span Blues
- 10/11 - Tom Stern, In Memorium
- 10/04 - Pop Gets It Wrong
- 09/27 - Pop Tunes and Grammar
- 09/20 - You Can't Coin What's Already Coined
- 09/13 - What Is-Is Is, Is Exasperating
- 09/07 - Test Your Vocabulary
- 08/30 - Hyphens: We Miss Them When They're Gone
- 08/23 - Nothing Poetic About This Verse
- 08/16 - Media Watch
- 08/09 - More Fun with Irregular Verbs
- 08/02 - Arcane Words and the "Intuitive" Reader
- 07/26 - A Sportswriter Cries "Foul!"
- 07/19 - The Haves and the Have Gots
- 07/12 - Spell Check
- 07/05 - Small Dishes
- 06/28 - Confessions of a Guerrilla Grammarian
- 06/21 - Clear as Mud
- 06/14 - Test Your Vocabulary
- 06/07 - Copy Editors Are People Too
- 05/31 - Might You Mean May?
- 05/24 - A Couple of Things, and a Couple More
- 05/17 - Irregular Verbs: Handle with Care
- 05/10 - Media Watch
- 05/03 - The Only Truth
- 04/26 - Punctuation Only Matters When You Speak
- 04/19 - The Rise and Fall of Vogue Words
- 04/12 - Punctuation or Chaos
- 04/05 - When Branding Undermines Spelling
- 03/29 - Autoantonyms Speak with a Forked Tongue
- 03/22 - Spell Well, and Excel
- 03/15 - Pronoun Puzzlers
- 03/08 - No Question About It
- 03/01 - Hypercorrection
- 02/23 - No Shortcuts with Irregular Verbs
- 02/16 - Words in Flux
- 02/09 - Media Watch
- 02/02 - You Lost Me After "Feb"
- 01/26 - Pleonasms Are a Bit Much
- 01/19 - That's nyooz to me
- 01/12 - Ain't That a Shame
- 01/05 - Resolutions for Word Nerds
2015
- 12/15 - Year-End Quiz
- 12/08 - The Spell of the Holidays
- 12/01 - Give the Gift of Pedantry
- 11/24 - They Never Said That
- 11/17 - Things We Will Never Say
- 11/10 - The Oxymoron: Simply Complicated
- 11/03 - Media Watch
- 10/27 - Test Your Vocabulary
- 10/20 - When Idioms Become Monsters
- 10/13 - Slipshod Extension
- 10/06 - Why Irregular Verbs Are Strong
- 09/29 - Each Other vs. One Another
- 09/22 - You Can Say That Again
- 09/15 - You Can Look It Up
- 09/09 - Euphemisms: Lying to Us Gently
- 09/01 - What's That I Spell?
- 08/25 - Colons and Capitals
- 08/18 - Compare To vs. Compare With
- 08/11 - Anachronisms: Time Out!
- 08/04 - Media Watch
- 07/28 - Grammar, Vocabulary Go Hand in Hand
- 07/21 - Numbers: Words or Numerals?
- 07/14 - Don't Put It in Writing
- 07/07 - Irregular Verbs Can Be a Regular Pain
- 06/30 - Misbegotten Views on Gotten
- 06/23 - The Lowdown on Different Than
- 06/16 - Say It Again, Sam
- 06/09 - Singular They Part II
- 06/02 - How Can They Be Singular?
- 05/26 - Spell Check
- 05/19 - What Kind of Rule Is Usually?
- 05/12 - A Twenty-first Century Usage Guide
- 05/05 - Media Watch
- 04/28 - Rewriting Great Poetry
- 04/21 - Evolution or …?
- 04/14 - The Elusive En Dash
- 04/07 - Stengelese Spoken Here
- 03/31 - The Man Who Hated Semicolons
- 03/24 - Proper Pronunciation: A Sound Policy
- 03/17 - That and Which: Rule or Guideline?
- 03/10 - Capitalizing Composition Titles, Part II
- 03/03 - Capitalizing Composition Titles: The Lowdown
- 02/24 - Spell Check
- 02/17 - Media Watch
- 02/10 - Rules, Policies, and Judgement Calls
- 02/03 - Are Two r's One Too Many?
- 01/27 - Nice Publication—Until You Read It
- 01/20 - Get Thee to a Dictionary
- 01/13 - Words in Flux
- 01/06 - Resolutions for Word Nerds
2014
- 12/16 - What Have We Learned This Year?
- 12/09 - 2014 Christmas 'Log Review
- 12/02 - Begging the Question
- 11/25 - Media Watch
- 11/18 - Don't Dis Disinterested
- 11/11 - Fighting for Literally
- 11/04 - Verbal Illusions
- 10/28 - What About and/or?
- 10/21 - Thrash the Slash
- 10/14 - All About etc.
- 10/07 - i.e.vs. e.g.
- 09/30 - Wails from My Inbox
- 09/23 - A House Is Not a Hone
- 09/16 - Rules and Preferences
- 09/09 - Old Superstitions Die Hard
- 09/02 - Essential and Nonessential Elements, Part III
- 08/26 - Essential and Nonessential Elements, Part II
- 08/19 - Essential, but Is It Important?
- 08/12 - People vs. Persons
- 08/05 - Media Watch
- 07/29 - The Best Thesaurus
- 07/22 - Nothing Is True Forever
- 07/15 - Jargon Is No Bargain
- 07/08 - Collective Nouns and Consistency
- 07/01 - These Nouns Present Singular Problems
- 06/24 - Based Off Is Off Base
- 06/17 - Italics vs. Quotation Marks
- 06/10 - Be Careful with the -a Team
- 06/03 - Apostrophes: Not Always Possessive
- 05/27 - Apostrophes: Dueling Rules
- 05/20 - Apostrophes and False Possessives
- 05/13 - Apostrophes and Proper Nouns
- 05/06 - Apostrophes: Worth the Trouble
- 04/29 - When They Is a Cop-out
- 04/22 - Media Watch
- 04/15 - More Of
- 04/08 - Wisdom of Yogi Berra
- 04/01 - The Wicked Of
- 03/25 - (All About) Parentheses
- 03/18 - The Case of the Missing Hyphen, Part 2
- 03/11 - Cheap Talk Can Cost You
- 03/04 - Hyphen Help Us
- 02/25 - Simple Words, Fancy Label
- 02/18 - An Unparalleled Letdown
- 02/11 - Media Watch
- 02/04 - Feb-roo-ary vs. Feb-yoo-ary
- 01/28 - Sic for Sick Sentences
- 01/21 - The Future of English?
- 01/14 - Revised and Expanded Blue Book Coming Next Month
- 01/07 - I Don't Use Use To but I Used To
2013
- 12/17 - Christmas 'Log Review
- 12/10 - Don't Blur Fine Distinctions
- 12/03 - Look Who's Talking
- 11/25 - Media Watch
- 11/19 - Learning From the Masters
- 11/12 - We the People, or...?
- 11/05 - We the People, or...?
- 10/29 - Two More Reasons Pronouns Plague Us/a>
- 10/22 - Shape-shifting Troublemakers
- 10/14 - I Subject, Your Honor
- 10/08 - I Subject, Your Honor
- 10/01 - Sweating the Small Stuff
- 09/24 - To Split or Not to Split
- 09/17 - Whoever Would Use Whomever: Read On
- 09/10 - Whom Abuse Is Rampant
- 09/03 - Words Can Be Bullies
- 08/27 - Leonard's Ten Commandments
- 08/20 - Sabotage in Broad Daylight?
- 08/13 - How Did They Get in Here?
- 08/06 - How Did They Get in Here?
- 07/30 - I'll be hanged! Or, have I just gone missing?
- 07/23 - Farther vs. Further
- 07/16 - Assure vs. Ensure vs. Insure
- 07/09 - The Media Made Me Do It
- 07/02 - Pled vs. Pleaded & Enormity Defined
- 06/25 - Paraprosdokian Sentences
- 06/18 - Basically, why your cohort isn't your buddy
- 06/11 - Internal Dialogue: Italics or Quotes?
- 06/04 - "None Were" vs. "None Was"
- 05/28 - Bad vs. Badly
- 05/21 - Word nerds: Verbal custodians trapped in a time warp
- 05/14 - Confusing Possessives: Holidays
- 05/07 - I vs. Me
- 04/30 - The Subjunctive Mood
- 04/23 - Rules Do Change
- 04/16 - Nuggets from Ol' Diz
- 04/09 - Question Marks with Quotation Marks
- 04/02 - Periods with Quotation Marks
- 03/26 - The Oxford Comma
- 03/19 - Ring vs. Rang vs. Rung
- 03/12 - More Mangled Language and Pompous Usages to Avoid
- 03/05 - Commas, Part 10
- 02/26 - Remembering Jane
- 02/19 - Commas, Part 9
- 02/12 - Commas, Part 8
- 02/05 - On To vs. Onto
- 01/29 - The Word Nerd: 6 Pitfalls Writers (And Others) Should Avoid
- 01/22 - Spelling: -ce vs. -se
- 01/15 - Commas, Part 7
- 01/08 - Commas, Part6
2012
- 12/18 - Commas, Part 5
- 12/11 - Commas, Part 4
- 12/04 - Stubborn Stinkaroos
- 11/27 - Commas, Part 3
- 11/13 - Commas, Part 2
- 11/06 - Commas, Part 1
- 10/30 - That's what that means?
- 10/23 - Capitalization of Governmental Words
- 10/16 - That vs. Which
- 10/09 - Who vs. That
- 10/02 - Allot vs. A Lot; Allowed vs. Aloud
- 9/25 - Spell Check Overreach
- 9/18 - What Does vs. What Do
- 9/11 - Some vs. Any
- 9/04 - When vs. Whenever
- 8/28 - Consistency: Treatment of Numbers
- 8/21 - Reflexive Pronouns
- 8/14 - Pronouncing the Word Blessed
- 8/7 - What is a Gerund and Why Care?
- 7/31 - Kinship Names: To Capitalize or Not to Capitalize?
- 7/24 - Parallel Construction
- 7/17 - Connecting Sentences with Commas and Semicolons
- 7/10 - If I Would Have... vs. If I Had...
- 7/3 - Into vs. In To (Expanded)
- 6/26 - Hyphenating Between Words
- 6/19 - Hyphens with the Prefix re
- 6/12 - Proofreading Well
- 6/5 - Commas before and in a Series
- 5/29 - If I Would Have... vs. If I Had...
- 5/22 - Whoever vs. Whomever
- 5/15 - Plural and Possessive Forms with Names Ending in y
- 5/8 - Quotations within Quotations
- 5/1 - Effect vs. Affect
- 4/24 - Parentheses
- 4/17 - Writing Addresses
- 4/10 - Writing Elegantly
- 4/3 - Good vs. Well
- 3/27 - Fractions, Decimals, and Money
- 3/20 - I vs. Me (Review)
- 3/13 - The Number vs. A Number
- 3/6 - Writing Dates and Times
- 2/28 - Numbers as Adjectives
- 2/21 - Writing Numbers
- 2/14 - When to Capitalize People’s Titles
- 2/7 - Pronoun Tips
- 1/31 - Pronoun Tips
- 1/24 - On to vs. Onto
- 1/17 - Problems with Prepositions
- 1/10 - Spell-checkers Can't Think for You
- 1/3 - Clearing Up Confusing Words
2011
- 12/20 - Assure vs. Ensure vs. Insure
- 12/13 - Farther vs. Further
- 12/6 - Abbreviations vs. Acronyms vs. Initialisms
- 11/29 - Ellipsis Marks
- 11/15 - Use of Brackets
- 11/8 - Colons (Continued)
- 11/1 - Colons with Lists
- 10/25 - Semicolons
- 10/18 - Nouns Can Become Verbs
- 10/11 - Subject and Verb Agreement with Collective Nouns
- 10/4 - When to Add "s" to a Verb
- 9/27 - The Apostrophe with Numbers, Letters, and Abbreviations
- 9/20 - Dashes
- 9/13 - Writing Dates and Times
- 9/6 - Some "All" vs. "Al-" Words
- 8/30 - Can vs. May
- 8/23 - Irregular Verbs
- 8/16 - Fractions, Decimals, and Money
- 8/9 - Adding Suffixes: To Double or not to Double Consonants
- 8/2 - Plural and Possessive Forms with Names Ending in y