Today’s Grammar Time will focus on a grammar principle you likely intuitively follow, but now you’ll know the name and the rules behind it. It’s one of those things that native English speakers can tell is correct but might not […]
Today, we are going to be talking about the differences between affect and effect. We’ve all seen these two words, and perhaps we use them frequently within our everyday writing. As speakers of the English language, we have a general […]
When it comes to writing, sometimes our brains fill in the gaps between what we mean and what we say, which means that we might be totally oblivious to problems that seem to stick out like a sore thumb to […]
You have probably come across dashes in various works. The ever-useful hyphen is pretty common — and you’ve certainly come across an em dash before. The en dash is a little lesser known but no less important. Let’s start with […]
To start out this Grammar Time post, let’s look at two examples: The reason we have Grammar Time blogs is because we want to teach people the rules behind grammar. The reason we have Grammar Time blogs is that we […]