The
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Volume Twenty-One


LOG #200

  1. A list of prepositions
  2. Mac's ad: Think Different!
  3. Unnecessary shifts in pronoun reference
  4. Using on and in
  5. Using from and since
  6. Punctuating around parentheses and exclamation marks
  7. At which and in which
  8. An open syllable?
  9. Origin of "another county heard from"?
  10. Than versus from


LOG #201

  1. I've not versus I haven't
  2. Subject to versus subjected to
  3. Commas and titles of movies, etc.
  4. Commas and names of moms, etc.
  5. Identifying simple subjects and simple predicates
  6. May be versus maybe
  7. Will rain versus is going to rain
  8. "Two pages of information on which. . . "
  9. Using myself to reinforce singularity
  10. Capitalizing President


LOG #202

  1. Six feet tall or six foot tall
  2. Beginning a sentence with because or prepositional phrase
  3. What do you wish for?
  4. Pronoun-antecedent problems
  5. Capitalizing Internet, etc.
  6. The two spaces after a period, etc.
  7. Be prepared or Prepare
  8. Freshly baked bread or fresh baked bread
  9. Every so often or every so often
  10. Simple subjects, complete subjects


LOG #203

  1. There is my father and I/me
  2. Ten items or fewer/less
  3. Difference between like and as
  4. Uses of a semicolon
  5. Simple subject
  6. Describing an author's style
  7. Collective nouns -- singular or plural
  8. Capitalizing a series of answers to a question
  9. Posed versus poised
  10. Fish and sheep as mass nouns


LOG #204

  1. Help with essays
  2. Standard Modern Language Form?
  3. Capitalizing nicknames
  4. Less and fewer revisited
  5. A choice of and and or
  6. Better, had better, had better have
  7. Savings is/are
  8. Toward versus towards
  9. Writing a third-person paper
  10. Spaces after a colon


LOG #205

  1. How to set apart the name of a rock band, etc.
  2. Discussed between Frank and myself/me
  3. Writing a book review
  4. Sometimes and sometime
  5. I and me
  6. Passive voice
  7. Three pair/pairs for the price of one
  8. "I before e except after c," etc.
  9. Placement of adverbs and auxiliaries, etc.
  10. Suffice it to say


LOG #206

  1. Stop the wolf from eating/eating the sheep
  2. Separating state from county
  3. Correction of verbal and subject
  4. Bullets and commas
  5. A who-whom decision
  6. Medium size/sized companies
  7. Split infinitives
  8. Prepositions
  9. One of the places where/which I'd like to visit
  10. Hyphenating compound modifiers


LOG #207

  1. Lesson plans for the subjunctive
  2. Apply and put on
  3. Using the
  4. Underway versus under way
  5. Pluralizing the Thomas family
  6. Responsible to/for
  7. A who/that question
  8. Doctor will see you now
  9. Rather go cycling than jogging
  10. Ending a business letter


LOG #208

  1. Structural question from Hong Kong
  2. Help with prepositions, phrasal verbs
  3. Vice-president, vice president
  4. When is Friday next Friday?
  5. Sentence parts identification problems
  6. First person singular of a word?
  7. Is coming versus is going to come?
  8. The eight parts of speech
  9. Had my hair cut versus got my hair cut
  10. The uses of competent


LOG #209

  1. The use of arouse
  2. Comma placement around pamphlet title
  3. Beginning a sentence with sometimes or usually
  4. Spent money to clean/cleaning
  5. Periods in ad copy
  6. In what year were you born?
  7. Punctuation with sentence-ending abbreviation
  8. Punctuating around therefore
  9. You may place books on hold, just ask us for help.

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