Sometimes we aren’t careful with the placement of words in our sentences and thus aren’t as clear as we could be. Can you spot potential ambiguity caused by the placement of the word only in any of these sentences? The budget can only be balanced if...
We talk about hyphens in several different articles on this site. One article distinguishes hyphens from en and em dashes. Another talks about open, closed, and hyphenated compound words. This article focuses on using a hyphen with adjectives. Start with a Quiz on...
Often we hear people with two children describe one as the oldest and the other as the youngest, but those word choices are illogical and fail to understand how the comparative and superlative degrees of modifiers actually work. Here are a few more sentences to...
