English Grammar

Why is grammar important? As Jasper Fforde put it, "Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom."

  • A gray cloud over gray waters
    Gray or Grey: How to Choose the Right Word
  • A career adviser assisting a client at a job fair
    Advisor vs. Adviser: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Wooden footpath directional sign showing carving of walking person
    Toward vs. Towards: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Woman looking in mirror
    I vs. Me: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Empty conference room
    Nobody, No One, and None: How to Choose the Right Word
  • An Argentine woman at the market
    Ware, Wear, and Where: How to Choose the Right Word
  • No Parking Any Time Sign in a Hedge
    Any Time vs. Anytime: How to Choose the Right Word
  • shear and sheer
    Shear vs. Sheer: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Father and daughter jiving in kitchen
    Jive, Jibe, and Gibe: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Social Media Apps
    Media, Medium, and Mediums: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Personal and personnel
    Personal vs. Personnel: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Putting Green at Sunset
    Coarse vs. Course: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Kids waving bye
    Buy, By, and Bye: How to Choose the Right Word
  • track and tract
    Track vs.Tract: How to Choose the Right Word
  • The hugs being offered by these women are complimentary (free of charge)
    Complementary vs. Complimentary: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Young man is congratulated with high fives after race
    Whoever vs. Whomever: Choosing the Right Word
  • breakdown and break down
    Breakdown vs. Break Down: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Rear view of five friends going to beach
    There, Their, and They're: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Passenger airplane landing at dusk
    Plain vs. Plane: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Perspective
    Perspective vs. Prospective: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Assortment of lead fishing sinkers
    Lead vs. Led: How to Choose the Right Word
  • One ball bouncing higher than the others
    Than vs. Then: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Girl sticking bandaid onto mothers hand from first aid kit
    Aid vs. Aide: How to Choose the Right Word
  • A view of the Maryland State Fair at night
    Fare vs. Fair: How to Choose the Right Word
  • passed and past
    Passed vs. Past: How to Choose the Right Word
  • A strait
    Straight vs. Strait: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Coworkers at office party
    Assume vs. Presume: How to Choose the Right Word
  • A photograph of piano sheet music
    Chord vs. Cord: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Full Overflowing Storage Unit Bursting with Heap of Junk
    Hoard vs. Horde: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Menopausal woman having a hot flash at the office
    Affect vs. Effect: How to Choose the Right Word
  • advice and advise
    Advice vs. Advise: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Keith Richards
    Roll vs. Role: How to Choose the Right Word
  • desert and dessert
    Desert vs. Dessert: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Doctor checking senior mans back in examination room
    Patience vs. Patients: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Mom cleaning up with her kids
    Cleanup vs. Clean Up: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Outline graphic of a quote on a blackboard.
    Outlines for Every Type of Writing Composition
  • Group applauding inspiring speaker.
    Moral vs. Morale: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Capitol building
    Capital vs. Capitol: How to Choose the Right Word
  • premier League
    Premier vs. Premiere: How to Choose the Right Word
  • flammable and inflammable
    Flammable, Inflammable, and Nonflammable: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Saying a little prayer for finals week
    Evoke vs. Invoke: How to Choose the Right Word
  • This Way and That Way Signs
    Alternate vs. Alternative: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Lightning
    Lightening vs. Lightning: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Steaming Bull
    Breath vs. Breathe: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Group therapy session
    Imply vs. Infer: How to Choose the Right Word
  • A young woman in a forest holding a distress flare
    Flair vs. Flare: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Drinking glass breaking
    Brake vs. Break: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Two victims of Hurricane Katrina hugging each other
    Empathy vs. Sympathy: What Is the Difference?
  • Ernest Hemingway, from a draft of the ending to <i>A Farewell to Arms</i> (1920)
    Afterward or Afterword: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Summer Solstice on Flatside Pinnacle
    Southern Slang Dictionary
  • Composition Book
    How to Write an Abstract
  • Portrait of Noam Chomsky
    Transformational Grammar (TG) Definition and Examples
  • Parts of Speech
    The 9 Parts of Speech: Definitions and Examples
  • 13 of the Longest Words in the English Language
  • interjection - huh
    A List of Exclamations and Interjections in English
  • Noun, verb, and adjective suffix examples listed on a chalkboard.
    26 Common Suffixes in English (With Examples)
  • Little girl choosing an ice cream flavor from a display
    Choose, Chose, and Chosen: How to Choose the Right Word
  • Aurora borealis
    The Most Beautiful-Sounding Words in English
  • Examples of Irregular Plural Nouns in English
    100 Irregular Plural Nouns in English
  • Transferred epithet examples
    Transferred Epithet Definition and Examples
  • Kermit the Frog
    Word Play: Having Fun With the Sounds and Meanings of Words
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