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Today's topic is prepositions. Here's a typical listener question: I wanted to know if you could do a podcast on not ending a sentence with prepositions. Just as Harry Potter was unfairly labeled undesirable number one in the latest J.K. Rowling book
Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will help us talk about two kinds of peculiar questions. Isnt that going to be fun! Isn't that going to be fun, is a rhetorical question. Were also going to learn about its cousin. Thats called a ta
Today well be looking at two constructions that are correct, but which one you choose depends on your audience. In Which Versus Where The expressions that concern us today are which and where. Well be comparing sentences like these: This is the store
Suppose you are at a birthday party. Everyone has a cell phone. Just as the group begins singing to the birthday girl, someones phone rings loudly and wont stop. You see the noisy phone on the table and ask: Whose phone is this? Someone answers: Its
Many languages shorten words in everyday speech. In English, we shorten a lot of words. One way we do this is with contractions: two words joined with a special mark called an apostrophe. The apostrophe shows the reader where letters have been remove
Similar to other pairs like whose and whos, the pairing youre and your often causes confusion. In fact, its not hard to find hundreds of mistakes bearing this out in the Oxford English Corpus, a collection of examples drawn from around the Internet.