Dang, Girl, your participle is dangling…
I find it incredibly satisfying to correct a dangling participle because they are just so obvious. Now remember a participle is an adjective born of a verb. Usually they end [...]
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In that vein…
It’s quite ironic that I’m the one sitting in the grammar tree, because, truth be told, I can’t spell, and I have to look up grammar rules all the time. [...]
Close proximity….ARG!!!
If people keep using double redundancies, I’m going to be in close proximity to the limit of what I can bear—grammatically speaking of course. The word “proximity” means the quality [...]
The Grocer’s Apostrophe
The apostrophe should not be used to make nouns plural. It is instead intended to allow nouns to show possession. We make singular nouns possessive by adding an “apostrophe s,” [...]
Splitting the Infinitive– just don’t do it, OK?
An infinitive is a verb that is used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. Usually it is the simple verb form preceded by the word “to.” In the [...]
Subjective Pronouns
Sing the following to nice C major scale. “I, you, he, she, it, we, they—will NEVVV-VER be objects.” Now repeat it. “I, you, he, she, it, we and they” are [...]
In the Grammar Tree
I grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the Girls’ Preparatory School, where we NEVER split infinitives, and if we did, we heard about it. Of course, if we dared to [...]
The Gerund
The possessive modifies a gerund. A gerund is a verb that has been turned into a noun by the suffix “ing.” Visiting a college can be awesome. “Visiting” is a [...]
