Using the Articles “A” and “An”
One subscriber wrote to ask how to determine whether to use a or an in front of a noun. Like many of us, he had...
How to Make Last Names Plural
With quite a few big holidays looming, many people are gearing up to send holiday greeting cards, so this is the perfect time to remind...
To Split or Not to Split Infinitives?
Most of us were taught never to split infinitives, but writers have been splitting them anyway—even long before Star Trek provided us with perhaps the...
Can “They” Ever Be Singular?
Editors at Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary caused quite a stir when they tweeted on September 17, 2019, that “the nonbinary pronoun ‘they’ has been added to the...
“Lie” or “Lay”?
This website addresses a number of confusing word pairs, including effect and affect, sit and set, and bad and badly, just to name a few. But...
