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Today’s topic is whether—not rain or snow, but whether w-h-e-t-h-e-r, as in whether you like it or not, it’s the…
Today’s topic is whether it’s OK to begin a sentence with and, but, or or. The short answer is yes,…
Long Sentences My dad has a memorable poster in his bathroom: a diagram of a ridiculously long sentence by Marcel…
Because it’s graduation season, my inbox is filling up again with complaints about people who say things such as “We’re…
Dawn wants to know how to write that someone was awarded a degree. Is it “bachelor’s degree,” “bachelors degree,” or…
It sounds like a joke, but it’s actually a legitimate question: How do you spell “blond”? ‘Blond’ Versus ‘Blonde’ The…
Today we’re going to get a bit negative by looking at the various times you can use the word “nor.”…
Nowadays, “people” is almost always the right choice when you are talking about more than one person. Some dictionaries don’t…
I always get a lot of questions about hyphens when I do my AP style webinars, and it’s not surprising…
Julien-Pier Belanger/Unsplash, CC BY By Jonathan L. Zecher, Australian Catholic University With some communities in rebooted lockdown conditions and movement restricted…