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As heard on a news show on TV. Can we say misplaced modifier?? ...a meeting of the man who shot Bin Laden and 11 members of Congress... Happy punctuating! Margie

Oh, my. We are losing the battle, I do believe. ...extremely rare occurance... Though there are no rules for ance versus ence, one would think that the more common words would be spelled correct...

When words showing measurement, value, distance, amount are used with an s on the end and they are in front of a noun, use an apostrophe s for singular and just an apostrophe for plural. ...one w...

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...

Put a comma before the and because there is an independent subject and verb after the and. ...I was driving northbound on Madison, and I turned left onto Rourke. ...Rachel went to the hospital, an...

As I get ready for tomorrow's grammar review for the CSR/RPR English test-takers -- grammar is really my secret passion, my favorite!! -- I thought I would review a very common grammar rule/mistake...

There is a comma before but when there is an independent subject and verb after. ...was here, but she could not stay long... ...was here but could not stay long... ...wrote her, but I wasn't sure...

Just a reminder: We have an idiom turn into. It means "to become." ...When he drinks, he turns into a monster... ...He turned into someone I don't even recognize... Since this is true, we have t...

I saw this in an article online today. Where does the apostrophe go? If you remember that everything in front of the apostrophe has to be a word, you know that it cannot be each others' because th...