“Less” or “Fewer”
Quite a few articles on this site address confusing word pairs, including effect and affect, sit and set, lay and lie, and bad and badly....
Using Commas and Periods with Parentheses
This site addresses a number of punctuation issues, including punctuating with quotation marks, using the semicolon and colon, and deciding when to use the Oxford...
What We Wish Every First-Year College Student Knew
Most of this website is devoted to writing and editing matters, but the following post is not. Instead, it grew out of a collective desire...
Starting Sentences with “And” or “But”
One of our subscribers wrote to ask if it’s OK to start a sentence with the words and or but. The answer is yes. The...
Distinguish between “Effect” and “Affect”
We deal with many confusing word pairs on this site, including lay and lie, I and me, and bad and badly. This article helps us distinguish between...
