Category: Grammar and Mechanics

Verb Tenses

Posted by Alan Brooks | Feb 18, 2019 | Verb Usage | 0

Subject/Verb Agreement

Posted by Alan Brooks | Feb 3, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Homophones

Posted by Alan Brooks | Feb 3, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Ellipses

Posted by Alan Brooks | Jan 31, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Capitalization

Posted by Alan Brooks | Jan 29, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Apostrophes

Posted by Alan Brooks | Jan 21, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Verb Tenses

by Alan Brooks | Feb 18, 2019 | Verb Usage | 0

One of the most difficult things for fledgling writers and English learners is verb tenses. Most...

Subject/Verb Agreement

by Alan Brooks | Feb 3, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Ensuring that verbs agree with their subjects is a problem that less-experienced writers...

Homophones

by Alan Brooks | Feb 3, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Because English is a hybrid language of Old German, Latin (via French), some Greek, and a...

Ellipses

by Alan Brooks | Jan 31, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

And so it went… Ellipses are usually used to show that words have been left out of quotes, but...

Capitalization

by Alan Brooks | Jan 29, 2019 | Grammar and Mechanics | 0

Capitalizing the first letters of words is a tradition in English that comes from German. In...