Usage Notes

What is a Preposition?

What is an adverb?

What is a Verb?

What is a Noun?

What is an Adjective?

What is an appositive?

A Podium Is the Same Thing as a Lectern

We'd say it from a podium if we had to

'Ingenious' and 'Ingenuous': More Than a Typo

One's clever, the other's like a child

On 'Awesome'

An extraordinary, terrific word

What is figurative language?

Paint a picture with words

Should you 'quit' or 'resign'?

How to say you're outta there

A Guide to Em Dashes, En Dashes, and Hyphens

Be dashing—and do it well

A Guide to Using Semicolons

You too can become a semicolon master!

'Brought' vs. 'Brang' and 'Brung'

Consider it already ... broughten?

Is It 'Doctor's Appointment' or 'Doctor Appointment'?

The doctor is in, but whose appointment is it?

8 Grammar Terms You Used to Know, But Forgot

Plus yodeling

On Synecdoche and Metonymy

When you are left to your own rhetorical devices.

Active vs. Passive Voice: What's The Difference?

It’s cut and dried until it’s not.

Should We Say ‘Elfs’ or ‘Elves'?

A question surrounding a hard-working plural.

'Altho' vs. 'Although'

Altho doesn't get much love.

‘Disc’ and ‘Disk’: Is There a Difference?

Don’t toss a floppy like a Frisbee.

Is 'corps' singular or plural?

Blame French

Is it 'Forty'? Or 'Fourty'?

This is usage

What's the Past Tense of 'Green-light'?

Is the project green-lighted? Or greenlit?

The Many Plurals of 'Octopus'

But which is correct?