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There is no need to be a quandary over awhile versus a while. It can always be two words. It has to be two words after a preposition and in "a while ago" and "a while back." ...there for a while....

Okay is one of those words that peppers the speech patterns of many people. Here is the scoop on okay. If it comes at the beginning of a sentence, follow it with a period. It stands by itself and ...

Sometimes we "like" something that is not correct just because so many people say it incorrectly that we have become used to it. The who/whom question comes to mind. Many do not use these correctly...

Drove about 12 miles today to my stepdaughter's house for a family get-together. "Handicap Parking" at a church: Nope. It is handicapped parking. "Oversize Load" on the back of a truck: Nope. It ...

Lots of people have the idea that a prepositional phrase at the beginning of a sentence needs a comma depending on how many words it has in it. (First, let's be clear that we are talking here abou...

I was recently asked whether I would recommend a semicolon before "Is that fair?" just as it is before "Is that right?" The answer is that right, true, and correct in any of their various forms are...

When two prepositional phrases come at the beginning of a sentence, without regard to how long or short each is, there is usually a comma after the second one. ...At the beginning of the night, we...

This is a sentence I was asked about on Facebook. And I have it correctly punctuated here. Have there been any major stressful events in the last year that you can think of -- divorce? someone, a ...

We so often see the apostrophe used in the wrong place. Here I want to talk about just one of those instances. When the word the is used in front of a surname, the name HAS to be plural. We do no...