Browsing: Education
Have you heard about the required order of adjectives in English? A few years ago, a paragraph from Mark Forsyth’s…
which vs that To understand the difference between “which” and “that,” first you need to understand the difference between a…
Today I’ll explain the difference between dashes, commas, and parentheses. Have you ever been sitting at your computer writing, and…
The medial S is an elongated form of the letter S. It looks like a lowercase F, but with a line sticking out only on the left side of the letter. It was used in manuscripts published between the 8th and 19th centuries, whenever the letter S appeared at the beginning of or in the middle of a word; serf would be ſerf, and hessian would be heſſian, for example. The use of the medial S declined with the rise of the printing press, as printers preferred to use only one consistent S form.
A noun string is a group of nouns or adjectives clumped together to create one single term. They can create confusing and clunky text. To fix a noun string, reorder the phrase to start with the final noun, add prepositions and articles to clarify meaning, and look for opportunities to convert nouns into verbs.
ChatGPT and other chatbots like Claude and Gemini have seen stunningly rapid adoption in the last year or so. You…
Anabell asked, “Is it correct or incorrect to say ‘anyways’ to someone? As in ‘Anyways, call me later!’ ‘Anyways’ sounds…
If you watched the recent “Curb your Enthusiasm” finale on HBO, you may have been delighted to see the old…
Looking to save money on gas? We’re all pinching pennies where we can, and gas is a big expense. The…
When you think of famous figures who have contributed to the study of science, the first names that tend to…