My late mother had a pet peeve about the proper use of “me” and “I.” She measured your mental acuity, not to mention your socioeconomic standing, by whether you implicitly understood when to say ...
Writing with proper grammar is one of the easiest ways to establish credibility. For example, when was the last time you trusted the guy who opened his email with “Hello please sirs and madam” and ...
Call me old-fashioned, but the current state of grammar in the world is worrisome to me. Maybe it’s our reliance on autocorrect or spell and grammar check, but there is less and less attention to ...
Playbuzz has tasked participants to fill in the blanks in a sentence, asking them to chose from a selection of homonyms with only one being correct HOW good is your grammar? Do you know your ‘to’ from ...
A funny thing happens to languages that have huge numbers of speakers: over time, they seem to simplify. They lose all the fiddly bits that make languages like Hungarian so incredibly hard to learn, ...