Confusing Words…Again!
Yes, we’re continuing to visit confusing words because the English language abounds with them. Here are a few…
September 17, 2016Yes, we’re continuing to visit confusing words because the English language abounds with them. Here are a few…
September 17, 2016A few weeks ago I enjoyed a lovely dinner with friends at a cool restaurant in Raleigh. The first…
July 22, 2016A writing acquaintance of mine recently posted about her disdain of the comma splice, more importantly, the proliferation of…
June 23, 2016Last month, I overheard a conversation about dangling modifiers. Lots of laughter. Lots of confusion. Lots of questions. “What’s…
May 9, 2016Lots of time we hear verbal patterns that may be acceptable (to some people) in speech, but they are…
April 17, 2016We’re continuing to examine words that are used incorrectly. Enthused/Enthusiastic—Although enthused has become acceptable in standard usage, old school…
March 12, 2016For the past couple of posts, we’ve been focusing on confusing word pairs. Today will continue with a few…
February 22, 2016We’ll take a break from adding more confusing words to our list this time and focus only on…
February 9, 2016The English language has many confusing words because of all of those homonyms and synonyms (don’t even get me…
January 9, 2016I love Christmas. I especially love sending and receiving Christmas cards. We send out a lot from our house,…
November 24, 2015A hyphen is a type of punctuation linking words that form one idea to avoid confusion. Here are a…
October 26, 2015What’s wrong with this sentence? Me and Cam finished the Army Ten-Miler. Me should be I, right? Easy. Most…
September 18, 2015Let’s talk about apostrophes today. They’re little floating dots with tails that cause major problems for some people. Apostrophes…
August 30, 2015Punctuation and grammar come easily to me. I remember rules from elementary school, can recite a whole list of…
August 10, 2015Hello, I’m Hope. A long, long time ago I used to teach English on the college level. I taught…
July 29, 2015