Tag Archives: Grammar

Now that fall has officially arrived, I won't be sorry to see the summer heat fade away. But will we have colder or lower temperatures?

The English language can cause a lot of confusion at times. A great example comes when you're trying to choose between marshal or marshall.

When you're writing and you have to choose either wail or whale, the decision may not seem tricky...except in one specific use.

If you're not sure how to choose between the words hanged or hung, let's clear up the difference between these two past-tense forms of hang.

Do you know whether you should be using dashes or hyphens when you write? It depends on what you're trying to accomplish!

While some people still seem unwilling to negotiate the 'singular they,' we also need to discuss appropriate singular they pronouns.

Those of us who grew up around the golden age of the Western remember the teepee as those conical-shaped Native American dwellings.

If you're trying to do things without attracting a lot of attention, are you trying to be discreet or discrete? Many don't seem to know.

When writing about speed, should you use the word stat or stet? With just one letter different, it might be easy to choose the wrong one.

Merriam-Webster is catching flak for its updated gender definitions some claim are part of a massive, though ridiculous, conspiracy.

If you write professionally or academically, you probably saw terms like 'sentence case' and 'title case.' But they aren't the only ones.

When citing titles of songs, books, movies or tv shows, should you place them in italics or quotation marks? The answer is, 'It depends.'

The phrase 'quid pro quo' seems to confuse some people. They think it means getting a 'freebie.' But there's a little more than that involved.

A growing number of people on social media inexplicably don't seem to know the difference between aye or hey.

These two words sound almost exactly alike but have different meanings: So how do you decide between emigrant or immigrant?

If you had to choose either strangle or strangulate in a sentence, would you know for sure which one to pick? Here's how they're different.