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LOG #470

  1. The use of "forayed"
  2. Two sentence construction problems
  3. Using "as to whether"
  4. Hyphenating double adjectives
  5. If versus whether
  6. Incentize
  7. Which sentence is correct?
  8. I would appreciate it if. . . . .
  9. I stand testament . . . .
  10. The team . . . they . . .


LOG #471

  1. Tuna or tuna fish
  2. This is my grandpa and me/I taking a nap.
  3. Is this sentence correct?
  4. The utmost kindness and respect
  5. Rank after rank of tanks were/was passing by
  6. Attachments versus enclosures
  7. Believe you me!
  8. It's high time we send/sent him a registered letter.
  9. Various lobster, crab, prawn
  10. Know who/whom to trust.


LOG #472

  1. Using anymore in a positive sentence
  2. A survey for all employes to respond/respond to
  3. Some of our staff have/has been in the field . . .
  4. In the past couple months/couple of months
  5. Presume versus assume
  6. Sick students is/are the reason . . . .
  7. Time after time, question after question
  8. The manual is color coded/color-coded
  9. He died before me/I.
  10. The university awards two staff members.


LOG #473

  1. Colons in military time
  2. Using prepositions with "which" in relative clauses
  3. Appendix/Appendices A through E
  4. Questioning William Strunk's Elements of Style
  5. Bulleting just one item
  6. The dialog box displays
  7. Most of whom/who have less than . . . .
  8. Using as well
  9. Remember them for who/whom they were
  10. Few have left me with the feeling that you have


LOG #474

  1. Nobody but I know the truth
  2. She input/inputted the data
  3. How's it going?
  4. A double negative
  5. Quotation marks and a dog's language
  6. Common sense or commonsense
  7. Titled versus entitled
  8. Compound predicate
  9. What is "six o'clock"?
  10. One or more of these is/are . . . .


LOG #475

  1. Calling in/into the board room
  2. After which we contacted the company . . . .
  3. Neither are you.
  4. Rain will fall while flurries occur. . . .
  5. Plain, positive language
  6. If any of you have/has questions
  7. Spread it around a little. . . .
  8. Conditions and methods of use our products is.are . . .
  9. The would-be pianist and the may-be murderer
  10. The 90s was/were a time . . . .


LOG #476

  1. She is like her father.
  2. The bus that went missing . . . .
  3. Can information ever be plural?
  4. Like Don, there might be times. . . .
  5. Including you and her/she
  6. Supplied Savannah with cotton
  7. Jobs that pay less than what their fathers made
  8. Who else in Israel is like you?
  9. A subjunctive question
  10. 2001 was a good year.


LOG #477

  1. He circled the house three times.
  2. Past tense and the present perfect
  3. Let's walk around.
  4. What is please?
  5. What shocked army and populace was/were . . . .
  6. She rarely spoke loudly.
  7. Can I disappear someone?
  8. The worst of these episodes seem/seems . . .
  9. Students were ranked high/highly.
  10. Your username and password is/are . . .


LOG #478

  1. David Horowitz's problems . . . .
  2. It's not uncommon for he and I . . . .
  3. Writing a postscript (PS, p.s ?)
  4. I don't want you sitting/to sit around
  5. Older and elder
  6. She fell asleep directly she got into bed.
  7. I resented Bob/Bob's kissing my girl.
  8. Can versus may
  9. Now offering bachelors' / bachelor's degrees
  10. Then President or then-President . . . .


LOG #479

  1. When something is relative to something else
  2. The grammar of mission statements
  3. Not a day passes but that I thank God . . . .
  4. Much too versus too much
  5. Their profession is to write/writing
  6. Like George Bush, Woodrow Wilson . . . .
  7. Being self-principled
  8. Beginning a setntence with "eBay"
  9. Using maiden names
  10. On time versus in time

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