What Is a Preposition? An Explanation With Examples You may have guessed it already: I’m a nerd. I love nerdy knowledge things like “Jeopardy!” and researching how prepositions work and why it’s so easy to get something so basic wrong. And, as you also may have...
Commonly Confused Words: Fewer vs. Less Comedic singer-songwriters aren’t usually high on my list of go-to references for grammar rules. Still, “Weird Al” Yankovic got a lot of them right in “Word Crimes.” He sings, “You should know when it’s less or it’s fewer.” This...
Why Is the Incorrect Use of Prepositions So Common? I could probably wax theoretical for months on why the incorrect use of prepositions is so prevalent, but the best answer is simple: Prepositions can be flat-out confusing. For instance, how can we be at the park but...
Level Up Your Descriptive Game With Relative Clauses Winning a baseball game is impossible with only one type of player, and articulate writing is impossible with only one part of speech. Nouns are nuanced but one-dimensional, strings of adjectives are colorful but...
Counting the Individuals, the Masses and the Indeterminate: Countable and Uncountable Nouns There’s almost a beauty to the overlapping of categorizations in the Venn diagram of nouns. Teenagers are concrete and countable. But, as a party of children, they become...
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