According to the Chicago Manual of Style, the comma is one of the most versatile of punctuation marks and indicates "the smallest interruption" in the train of thought that makes…
I've written this glossary as a convenient reference point for some of the more common grammar terms, especially for writers wanting to brush up on their explicit knowledge in this…
Good sentence structure comes fairly naturally to native speakers of English. Another way of putting that is that they have an implicit knowledge of it—they can make proper structures but may not be able to explain how that works...
On the face of it, grammar checkers seem like a good idea. English grammar is difficult enough to cause problems for even the most intelligent of writers, and the promise of the grammar checker is to take the pain out of the process...
Lists concerning grammar mistakes are always going to be fairly arbitrary as to what they include. But here are five basic grammar issues that commonly crop up in writing and…