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This question came up on FB. When the letter t and the letter d are inside a word, they sound the same: ladder/latter, shudder/shutter, conceited/conceded. When the d ends one word and t starts th...

Not a lot of people are really interested in this anymore, but here it is! There are two reasons that people have trouble with who and whom. The first reason is that one does not hear these used ...

When "as well as" is used in a negative context, the first "as" should be changed to "so." ...I did as well as expected. ...I did not do so well as expected. ...He reads as well as John. ...He do...

When this question was first posted on FB, there was a lot of adjective/adverb conversation about the word "bodily." An adjective answers "Which one?" or "What?" about the noun or pronoun it modif...

The punctuation of these words occasioned a rather heated discussion on FB that contained a number of misconceptions about the language in general. First, a note about the "-ly" issue. Adverbs th...

We continue with this dilemma, sometimes stretching to "look good." Here is a sentence from an article about the golf tournament over the weekend: ...The fact that so many cheered was confirmation...

This sentence is from an English exam: “Kay is one of the women who (is/are) (inferring/implying) that from what she read. So let’s first say that speakers and writers “imply” and readers and lis...