The
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Volume Twenty-Four


LOG #230

  1. What to do with TV titles?
  2. Pathetic fallacy
  3. What are form classes of words?
  4. The spelling of after-school
  5. Does Ana have/has a book?
  6. Describing a job position
  7. They will carry fully automatic weapon
  8. What is wrong with this sentence?
  9. Who/whom will you meet?
  10. If I played/had played . . . .


LOG #231

  1. Using pronouns for someone's name in a letter of recommendation
  2. A comma after Mr. Smith
  3. It is recommended that the school start/starts. . . .
  4. Skiing as gerund or participle
  5. Punctuation after Best regards
  6. Which bucket do/does your loans fall into?
  7. Here come/comes the Padres
  8. An analogy problem
  9. Getting physical
  10. Putting an adverb between the auxiliary and the verb


LOG #232

  1. A noun absolute
  2. Affect/effect questions
  3. None of us is/are . . . .
  4. Beginning a sentence with however
  5. Using myself and who/whom
  6. Forward/forwards and toward/towards
  7. Is something wrong with this sentence?
  8. Must, have to, need to
  9. Is/are John and Joan at home?
  10. Parents are not watching/don't watch TV.


LOG #233

  1. Compound noun or gerund phrase?
  2. More than one of the students was/were absent
  3. The longest sentence ever written
  4. Sometime versus some time
  5. A peculiar use for semicolons
  6. Using and to connect two parts of a dependent clause
  7. Omitting the "-s" ending from verbs
  8. The phases of essay writing
  9. Merger of/between two companies
  10. Compound versus complex sentences


LOG #234

  1. Is this sentence correct?
  2. First-come, first serve/served
  3. What does "d." mean?
  4. Respecting others/others'/other's property
  5. Anything to correct here?
  6. Problems from Finland
  7. Paragraph unity
  8. Words for taking a trip
  9. The history of apostrophes
  10. Usage questions from Bangkok


LOG #235

  1. A long quotation, broken into paragraphs
  2. Linking verbs
  3. Past modals of deduction
  4. The Haitian Club
  5. Using for as a conjunction
  6. Southern/southern Mesopotamia
  7. Has Mary bathed/been bathing?
  8. Pluralizing acronyms
  9. I don't understand why can't you/ you can't
  10. Referring to someone's academic degree


LOG #236

  1. Writing a well developed paragraph
  2. Third-world countries ?
  3. Compared to/with
  4. Happy Boss' Day or Happy Boss's Day
  5. Writing out percentages
  6. Simple or compound sentence
  7. Learning not to say ain't
  8. Punctuating missy mom dad and tom
  9. Adverbial and adjectival roles of prepositional phrases
  10. Punctuation around Jeff's name


LOG #237

  1. A group of marines is/are waiting
  2. Pluralizing and making possessive an unusual last name
  3. Get a hold of yourself/your self
  4. A bad question in the grammar quizzes
  5. My mom's and my past ??
  6. Past events without past tense
  7. Repeating a preposition applied to two objects
  8. Endangered species don't/doesn't imply
  9. You will be surely fascinated/be fascinated surely
  10. What voice are linking verbs?


LOG #238

  1. Intransitive passive voice?
  2. Is this sentence correct?
  3. I would appreciate it if / I would appreciate if. . . .
  4. The Husky or Huskies team
  5. The History of Grammar
  6. Difference between present progressive and present participle
  7. Trouble with tense consistency
  8. Two pronged/prong approach
  9. In writing well, mind and body become one
  10. These ones ?


LOG #239

  1. Definitions of prepositions
  2. For purpose of/the purpose of confidentiality . . . .
  3. As not only was it / as not only it was. . . .
  4. Yours sincerely versus Yours faithfully
  5. To hitchike/hitchiking is very dangerous
  6. A philosophy of teaching grammar
  7. A use of the word however
  8. Capital versus capitol
  9. Bulleted lists

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