Achieving Coherence in Writing: Transition Words and Phrases
Among the many tasks facing a writer, one of the most important is to provide transitions that explain how ideas in a text are related...
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...
Titles: Which Words Should Be Capitalized?
The following three titles contain capitalization errors. Can you spot them? A New Approach to Marketing on The Internet How To Promote Your Small Business...
Hyphenated Adjectives
Several of our subscribers have written to ask us to address the use of hyphens like the ones in the following six sentences. Can you...
Placement of Only
Can you identify a problem in any of these sentences? The budget can only be balanced if programs are cut for next year. Many animals...
