Grammar

Recently, Turtle left the following comment: Just remember, I'm a newbie, so don't become upset at what I'm about to...

We each have our own pet peeves when it comes to grammar. One of my biggest goes back to 1986....

Andrea made an excellent point in my last piece about rejection, "The 'R' Word." She states, "I don't think I...

All writers, no matter how experienced, no matter how talented, will eventually face rejection at some point in their career....

When was the last time you used an apostrophe? Do you recall? Do you remember why you used it? We...

Have you ever been tempted to enroll in one of those writing classes you've seen advertised? If you pick up...

I started my AOL writing journal (whose contents have since been merged here) when I joined the writing group, "What...

I wonder if anyone else has noted the subtle edit made recently in a Kool-Aid commercial. The spot in question,...

In this week's edition of the "Saturday Six," (see last post) I asked which of five words looked interesting enough...

Larry of "Larry's Blog" left me with a grammatical challenge. He asked what words like "bow," which have two different...

I was always involved in my high school newspaper. It wasn't really part of my wanting to work in television,...

Each year, the English Department at San Jose State University honors the memory of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton,...

1. "Bling-bling" - It's not really a word; it sounds more like something a three-year-old might say when she really...

Here's a story that I wish was an April Fool's Day joke! Warren St. John reports in the New York...

Plain English supporters around the world have voted "At the end of the day" as the most irritating phrase in...

It's a little ironic that the Internet, the ultimate achievement of the information age, which has caused old-fashioned printed Encyclopedias...