The
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Volume Twenty-Five


LOG #240

  1. Comma usage question
  2. Rules for hyphenating words like off-line
  3. You who do all this . . . .
  4. A name for Hoover, Xerox, Kleenex, Frigidaire, etc.
  5. Capitalizing mother and father, etc.
  6. New ruling on split infinitives
  7. Largely/mostly
  8. A vague pronoun
  9. Online help with diagramming
  10. Try and help someone


LOG #241

  1. Using Inc. or not
  2. Help with cause and effect
  3. Provided you with/provided to you
  4. Pre-authorized/preauthorized
  5. Sales is/are
  6. Simple and compound predicates
  7. Still confused with affect/effect
  8. "It's ugly," he said of/about the wallpaper.
  9. Explaining adverbial clauses
  10. Which sentence is correct?


LOG #242

  1. A surprise/surprising finding
  2. Preponderance is/are
  3. The plural of Harris
  4. I never have listened/have never listened
  5. Assets of the wife/wife's
  6. People in glass houses. . . .
  7. Compound subjects and predicates
  8. "Oughtta took" ?
  9. Another that/which decision
  10. Acceptable formats for dates


LOG #243

  1. Thesis topic ?
  2. When the dead awaken/awakens
  3. Relative pronoun + infinitive -- too formal?
  4. Pluralized acronyms
  5. Mixing tenses to describe someone's age
  6. A.M., a.m., AM, P.M., p.m., PM ?
  7. Parenthetical, typographical
  8. A punctuation-quotation question
  9. Further versus farther
  10. A grammar book for Brits?


LOG #244

  1. A female master of ceremonies?
  2. What part of speech is "every spring"?
  3. Use of semicolons in involved constructions
  4. What is a compliment/complement?
  5. Empathize versus sympathize
  6. World's / worlds' greatest
  7. Alot as one word
  8. A contraction for I did
  9. How to write a critical essay
  10. Questions from Hong Kong


LOG #245

  1. Between our clients and us/ourselves
  2. Between our clients and us/ourselves
  3. A list of contractions
  4. The plural of chef
  5. A list of homophones, etc.
  6. Transitive and intransitive
  7. He is one of the professors who talk/talks too much.
  8. Are these commas correct?
  9. Worrying about copyright
  10. She may have been being funny.


LOG #246

  1. Hyphens and fractions
  2. Beginning a sentence with so
  3. What was the film about? About space travel.
  4. Capitalizing things in technical writing
  5. Pluralizing words such as bush, fox, etc.
  6. Capitalizing names of organizations
  7. Leave the scene at dawn
  8. I would like for you to go.
  9. Do we need commas in this sentence?
  10. The name of the rock group, the Who


LOG #247

  1. Spelling and grammar
  2. The uses of the ampersand
  3. The difference between these sentences
  4. Using shall and will
  5. A comma question
  6. Antidisestablishmentarianism
  7. Most of the apples was/were eaten, etc.
  8. Using they with jeans, scissors, glasses
  9. Doing that/by doing that. . . .
  10. List of irregular plurals


LOG #248

  1. Hot dogs, french fries, and pop
  2. What are phonemes
  3. How to address a provost
  4. Capitalizing county
  5. Quiz or quizzes
  6. Causative adverbs?
  7. Capitalizing with headings of technical papers
  8. Were you ever bullied/have you ever been bullied?
  9. Using unsure with that, etc.
  10. What is a double predicate?


LOG #249

  1. A list of descriptive words
  2. At school versus in school
  3. A reasoning speech
  4. Few versus a few
  5. Some difficult subject-verb agreement problems
  6. Ending a sentence with is
  7. Capitalizing Noah's ark
  8. The history of the its/it's problem
  9. The events in a short story

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