The
Grammar
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Volume Thirty-Seven


LOG #360

  1. I will watch no TV
  2. Where is/are Mom and Dad?
  3. Is the verb ending "s" a suffix?
  4. Using semicolons with "however"
  5. I feed the dog. Object or indirect object?
  6. Using tense when writing about literature
  7. Using over instead of during
  8. Women students
  9. The name and address of plaintiff is/are
  10. It was a pleasure meeting Sara and you/yourself


LOG #361

  1. Reading his work and analyzing his report take/takes. . . .
  2. Restrictive and nonrestrictive modifiers
  3. Learning to fly is challenging and a thrill.
  4. The uses of anything
  5. Zero relatives
  6. What is synecdoche?
  7. The Butterflies is/are. . . .
  8. The dot above the i
  9. She wrang/wrung/wringed her hands
  10. At risk students. . . .


LOG #362

  1. An Education or Educational Center
  2. A question on the subjunctive
  3. Take a shower / shake a tower
  4. Punctuation after an ellipsis
  5. The aspect of a verb
  6. Using "if and when"
  7. Compare with versus compare to
  8. Frigidaire, Kleenex, Xerox. . .
  9. A problem with punctuating
  10. As of late. . . .


LOG #363

  1. Looking to [do something]
  2. Art for arts'/art's sake. . . .
  3. The uses of "to aggravate"
  4. The group was/were pitching their tents
  5. My uncle's cat
  6. Neither the red, white, or blue cars. . . .
  7. What does disjunctive mean?
  8. Using apropos
  9. Neither yeast nor bacteria is/are
  10. A sentence for court reporting


LOG #364

  1. "Over" versus "more than"
  2. Using "mid" with hyphens — or not
  3. The plural of the Plexus Commentary
  4. Elder versus older
  5. I felt a sensation in/on my knee
  6. Capitalizing churchly matters
  7. Staff is/are . . . .
  8. Spidermen or Spidermans
  9. Commas and Independent Clauses
  10. Children age/aged 6—10


LOG #365

  1. Malaprops in quotation marks
  2. You had better / You better . . . .
  3. Web page, webpage, web page, etc.
  4. A punctuation problem
  5. Anyplace and any place
  6. There is/are a lot of private pilots. . . .
  7. Commas and compounded questions
  8. The possessive of a date
  9. What kind of conjunction is so?
  10. Is majority singular or plural?


LOG #366

  1. Postponed temporarily
  2. I could/couldn't care less
  3. The man sitting there is my father.
  4. Welcome or welcomed
  5. Discovery Gets Ahold of Hubble
  6. A void or voided check
  7. A total of fifty birds was/were banded.
  8. The plural of staff
  9. Using an ellipsis to show pause
  10. Expressing sympathy


LOG #367

  1. Does he have two brothers or not?
  2. A school or a shoal of fish?
  3. Pleaded or pled?
  4. Drive safe or safely?
  5. Vermin infested garbage and pronoun usage
  6. Congratulations, Arachnids!
  7. Shined or shone?
  8. Using so by itself
  9. The plural of Cruz
  10. When dates are used as modifiers


LOG #368

  1. The building is located — verb or adjective?
  2. The students and teachers, who are very hard working
  3. Such as I/me; like me
  4. Surprise birthday party / birthday surprise party
  5. Living on/in Guam
  6. Phone the hotel direct/directly
  7. Eighty percent or 80%
  8. Is premises plural or singular
  9. Follow up / follow-up / followup
  10. Your presence and the part you played was/were received. . .


LOG #369

  1. Four of a kind of the day is/are aces
  2. Fans in their living room/rooms
  3. Then current material / then-current material
  4. Of an evening . . . .
  5. All of . . . .
  6. The plural of imagination
  7. The plural of Goodrich
  8. Sign up for for three years
  9. Six-thirty or six thirty
  10. Small versus large, large versus small

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