Style Manuals
While there are some hard-and-fast grammar rules (subjects must agree in number with their verbs, for example), a large percentage of what people regard as...
The Latin Abbreviations i.e. and e.g.
Elsewhere on this site, we have articles on many confusing word pairs, such as effect and affect, lay and lie, bad and badly, and I and...
Parallel Structure
Often our writing includes lists. If these lists are to be logical and readable, the items in them must be parallel with one another. That...
Passive Voice and Active Voice
If you use a word processing software’s grammar checker, you have probably seen a green squiggly line at some point indicating that your verb was...
Using Numbers, including Percentages
Style manuals do not agree on the issue of when writers should spell out numbers and when they should use numerals. And even a single...
