This past Monday I published an American Grammar Checkup post on three difficult punctuation marks so many writers misuse, and I asked if there was anything else I could write about that would help my readers. David B. Grinberg said he’d love to…
OK, You Asked for it — a Lie / Lay Quiz!
For those who regularly find and read my posts, the picture above might look familiar — I used it at the end of yesterday’s post on words that can make us angry when we use them. Laughter, indeed, is a wondrous thing;…
Lain — Laps
Here (hear) are more tricky words for (fore, four) your learning pleasure! I (eye) call them tricky, but (butt, butte) they’re (there, their) usually referred to (two, too) as homophones. Smart writers take great (grate) care while writing because…
Lie, Lay, Lain — These Words Are Such a Pain!
These verbs are the toughest words in the English language to master, probably because they are so much alike. And the forms sometimes show up in one of the other verbs . . . so how are we to know?…