The
Grammar
Logs:
Volume Twenty-Two


LOG #210

  1. Commas and and's, etc.
  2. An epicurean fragment
  3. Rules for hyphenating numbers
  4. Worrying about grammar
  5. Collective noun for criminals
  6. Correcting a problem with dangling participle
  7. Multi-words
  8. Good-by versus good-bye
  9. The meaning of under stress
  10. Which, of which, in which


LOG #211

  1. Using some and any
  2. "It is a melancholy object. . . ."
  3. For more information call or For more information, call?
  4. Kindness as part of speech
  5. Translating Latin -- the indicative
  6. Hyphenating with the prefix non-
  7. When your mail has/have arrived. . . .
  8. Finding direct objects
  9. Is linking two infinitives
  10. Some subject-verb agreement problems


LOG #212

  1. Capitalizing earth and pope
  2. Capitalizing seasons
  3. Capitalizing county
  4. Standards for writing minutes
  5. What is the passive voice?
  6. That last comma in a series
  7. Correct use of "it is" and "this is"
  8. The kinds of pronouns
  9. A sentence about litter
  10. Toward and towards


LOG #213

  1. Dear Sir or Madam or whatever
  2. Getting started on an essay
  3. Party was held at the Smiths/Smiths'
  4. Comparison-contrast essay
  5. Who as subject
  6. Simple predicates and verbs
  7. Dr. John Smith, Ph.D.
  8. Festival or festive occasion
  9. Subject-verb agreement with or
  10. Sentence-ending prepositions


LOG #214

  1. Off or off of the cob
  2. A two billion dollar company
  3. A comma problem
  4. Someone who hates on religious grounds
  5. Bruise bad or badly
  6. Marking syllables
  7. Using brillig in a sentence
  8. Using bold type in a research paper
  9. Using of after common gerunds
  10. Direct and indirect objects


LOG #215

  1. Fill in/out this form
  2. There is/are a boy and a girl in this room
  3. The language of chat rooms
  4. Capitalizing one's major
  5. Which and that and TOEFL, etc.
  6. "-ing" forms and tense
  7. Quality remains/has remained high
  8. U.S. Dollars/dollars
  9. Plural attributive nouns
  10. Since its foundation, the company has/has had . . . .


LOG #216

  1. Using "a number"
  2. May versus might
  3. Men, women, children, and commas
  4. A list of transitive verbs
  5. A noun: proper, noncount, inanimate
  6. I too, you too, etc.
  7. The forms of compound words
  8. The use of elope
  9. Using a comma in an address
  10. Alphabetizing hyphenated names


LOG #217

  1. Go slow versus go slowly
  2. Synonyms and antonyms
  3. Vertical lists in a research paper
  4. Fewer and less now a FAQ
  5. Playing around with "Brevity is the soul of wit."
  6. Problems with tenses
  7. Degrees of satisfactory
  8. Half an hour, a half an hour, half of an hour
  9. What's wrong with this sentence?
  10. What are "the wise," etc.?


LOG #218

  1. Capitalizing Congressional, departmental, etc.
  2. Length limits to a quotation?
  3. Capitalizing sun and earth
  4. Theme and motif
  5. Commas and subordinating conjunctions
  6. Reflexive and emphatic pronouns
  7. Sales appeal / sales' appeal
  8. That time of year/the year
  9. You joining the department/your joining the department
  10. Alphabetizing Jr. and III, etc.


LOG #219

  1. A/an MVR
  2. Possessive of IRS
  3. Using a semicolon to separate dependent clauses
  4. I have been/was at home last night
  5. The/the Chicago Tribune
  6. A who/whom choice
  7. What's wrong with this sentence?
  8. The use of should ______ and should have __________
  9. Joe and Becky's baby versus Joe's and Becky's baby

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