If a word or phrase is spoken more than it is written, the correct spelling can be difficult to remember. This is a common problem with exclamations, e.g., whoa, aw, whoops, etc. As you might imagine, these exclamations don’t find their way into written prose all that often, and when they do, [...]
Tenses can be confusing for students just learning a language, and English tenses can be especially tricky as the language has countless irregular verbs. The word “tense” means “time:” time shown by the verb. Whether a writer needs to describe something happening today, something happening tomorrow, or something that has already happened, [...]
Besides the period, the comma is probably the most widely used punctuation mark in English writing. In fact, the comma might actually be used more frequently than the period, as some sentences have multiple commas but only one period (like this one). In this post, I want to go over five common [...]
