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When i.e. or e.g. are used, they introduce a renaming of what was just said. How they are punctuated depends upon where they are in the sentence and what follows them. When they are at the end of ...

I have been on Facebook a couple of times in the last couple of days and am seeing away too much of then instead of than! When there is a comparison word -- that would be the word more or an "-er"...

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The use of the word were in this construction is fading from our language as people do not understand the correctness of it. This construction is called "contrary-to-fact" subjunctive. It is a sit...

When there is a comparison, the word you want is than, not then. ...harder than I thought... ...smoother than the last one... ...acts better than she... ...performed better than he did the last t...

The words for the directions -- north, south, east, west -- and any "combined" forms of those are capped when they represent a "recognized" geographical area. There are those we would all recognize...

This question keeps coming up. When you have a coordinate conjunction -- and, but, or, nor -- there is never a single comma by itself after it. You might want to surround something after a coordina...

I think there are two ways to do this: ...one, one thousand; two, one thousand; three, one thousand... or ...one/one thousand, two/one thousand, three/one thousand... Either way gives the right...

As one word, anymore means "from this time forward, from now on." ...don't like him anymore... ...will not go there anymore... When it is any more, two words, the word more means "additional." Tw...