A site to help make English grammar more understandable without dumbing down either its significance or its usage.
A lot of people get confused about where and how to use the colon. For instance, some people will place a colon after a verb to introduce things that follow, as in: "The four reasons are: greed, anger, stupidty and laziness." However, here’s a tidy little rule to remember: Never use a colon after a verb, [...]
I never knew there was an American Dialect Society (do they use there for their?), nor did I know anyone went around dubbing words of the year. However, the American Dialect Society just proclaimed subprime its Word of the Year. (Subprime, of course, refers to real estate loans made to people who really can’t afford [...]
I’ve added two subdomains to my site, both of which are self-updating. In other words, as new videos are posted out in cyberspace, the script controlling my sites will automatically update the content. One site looks at English lessons, and it’s found at EnglishVids.GrammarSucks.com. The other takes a look at the foibles and follies of [...]
In describing one of the contestants (I think it was Wolfgang Puck) on Iron Chef America, Alton Brown said the chef was always "reinventing new ingredients." Anything wrong with that expression? A couple of things are off here. For one, you can’t reinvent something that’s new; you can only invent something that’s new. For another, you can’t invent food [...]
I received this file via e-mail from a list to which I belong. I reluctantly read it, but it turns out that A New YOU Year is full of great advance to help you advance yourself in 2008.
Happy New Year’s and welcome to 2008, everyone. I see that the use of English continues to degenerate into some electronic media-driven abortion of its beautiful person. Probably, most if not all of you heard of the tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day that left one 17-year-old dead. We certainly all [...]