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Volume Twenty-Nine


LOG #280

  1. What's a mutated plural?
  2. Prepositional phrases and what they modify
  3. Is/are the media responsible?
  4. "In" or "with" with "to assist"?
  5. Using "and/or"
  6. Provided something makes me happy . . . .
  7. The forms of fun
  8. The subject or object form after "than"
  9. Another information
  10. Using that -- or not


LOG #281

  1. Direct and indirect objects
  2. The names of churches named after a saint
  3. "Makes no representation"
  4. Building a sentence with a subordinate clause
  5. Block style versus indenting
  6. Topic sentence versus gimmick sentences
  7. The love was to be
  8. I know the thief to be him/he
  9. Earnings per share were/was up
  10. As much or as many as ten dollars


LOG #282

  1. Using the with acronyms, etc.
  2. Are noun clauses always singular?
  3. The rate of crime and violence haven't changed
  4. Level of invective/invectiveness
  5. Complements and finite verbs
  6. Excellent as a noun?
  7. The yoke of the egg is/are white
  8. What to do with the title of a movie
  9. Writing degrees (temperature), etc.
  10. Besieged with or by


LOG #283

  1. Analytic versus analytical; how to spell website
  2. What verb goes with "to keep"?
  3. Using and to connect two independent clauses
  4. She loves him "none the less"
  5. The more I know, the more I appreciate . . . .
  6. You got mail, you have mail, you've got mail, etc.
  7. Too many/much beans
  8. Using a comma to separate identical words
  9. An interesting who/whom question
  10. Pulitzer prize-winning?


LOG #284

  1. You are no/not Mike Tyson
  2. Persons versus people
  3. Using a comma with Jr.
  4. As yet versus as of yet
  5. Cacophony versus cacophonous
  6. Articles accompanying ordinal numbers
  7. Commoner, commonest
  8. Capitalizing I but not me
  9. I believe/believed this is correct
  10. The overuse of "as well"


LOG #285

  1. Different ways to say "I think"
  2. Connect these two thoughts
  3. He's had chicken pox/the chicken pox
  4. Inoculation versus vaccination
  5. "Does" versus "is doing"
  6. Casey's, my step-brother's, car
  7. The plurals of words ending in o
  8. Using plus instead of and
  9. Upon reviewing the report, I am/was pleased to . . . . .
  10. Is "mustn't" past tense?


LOG #286

  1. Some subject-verb agreement problems
  2. Punctuating the bear among the blueberry bushes
  3. "Knowing" versus "if I knew"
  4. Going after school instead of after practice
  5. Correct the sentences [that] you think are wrong
  6. Array and series
  7. Allow with infinitives and gerunds
  8. Minding our p's and q's
  9. Grammatical problems in Tosca
  10. A quantity of book/books is on the floor


LOG #287

  1. In behalf of versus on behalf of
  2. A group of look-alikes chant/chants
  3. The possessive of James I
  4. Is Olympics an abstract or concrete noun?
  5. Infinitive as subject or direct object
  6. Great books is/are just the beginning
  7. Had I known my answer would irritate/would have irritated
  8. Using the colon in a salutation, always
  9. Electric versus electrical
  10. Rhythm in/by which; immerse in/into


LOG #288

  1. Problems in parallel form
  2. Guidance in/on
  3. Possessive forms of singular proper nouns ending in "s"
  4. "Gunning for me" / opposing me
  5. Sure up or shore up
  6. These kind/kinds of example
  7. The earlier of this and/or that
  8. None of the bikers is/are here yet
  9. Using "so" as the coordinating conjunction between independent clauses
  10. Earl's Towing versus Earls Towing


LOG #289

  1. Using "you" or "one"
  2. Is "neither-or" possible?
  3. Got versus gotten
  4. I had/ate my lunch
  5. Are beans countable or not?
  6. Using "apart from"
  7. Does this sentence need another verb?
  8. It was just you and he/him
  9. The possessive of something already possessive
  10. Waking up crying -- adjective or adverb?

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