I am disturbed by an increasing tendency to misuse I when it is joined to another person with and. My personal theory is that repeated childhood corrections of me…

It is amazing how much confusion such trivial words as then and than can generate. The fact that many dialects pronounce them very similarly doesn’t…

Writer Worries: There, They’re, or Their? The challenge with there, they’re, and their is that the words are homonyms (also called homophones), which means they sound the same but…

Writers hear over and over to avoid passives and use active verbs only. But if you don’t come from an intensive English background, you can…