The Grammar Logs Volume Fifty-Three

LOG #520

1. The boys currently are / are currently more likely
2. A mission statement
3. We have clients the likes of IBM.
4. Amongst my mother, siblings, and myself
5. Doggy Dos
6. Individual and couples counseling is/are available.
7. Real men speak seldom.
8. Having recently completed / Recently having completed
9. Enthused versus enthusiastic
10. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

LOG #521

1. The difference between loud and noisy
2. Pan seared and troll caught
3. Although not yet adults, teens are pressured . . . .
4. Await versus wait
5. Alphabetizing when numbers are involved
6. Appositive or modifier?
7. Does does cover subsequent verbs in the sentence?
8. Exclamation marks with parentheses
9. Totally and completely unacceptable
10. Maximally 41 nucleotides in length

LOG #522

1. Early Sunday morning . . . .
2. Have oversight or oversee
3. The album went platinum in 1994.
4. Every one of the students'uneasiness
5. Can what be a relative pronoun?
6. Comma between the state and the Zip code?
7. Separating independent clauses
8. Brennans' Office Interiors, Inc.
9. Whose as the subject pronoun
10. A mob of youths

LOG #523

1. Native Americans or American Indians
2. Therein lies/lays the problem.
3. Empathic versus empathetic
4. That is very true.
5. A very wooden performance
6. Two twins
7. When she leaves, we are beginning our meeting.
8. Wow, did you see that small bird!
9. Northwest Potato Varietal Development Committee
10. The subject matter they wish to speak about

LOG #524

1. The plural of cupful, etc.
2. Awhile versus a while
3. No living man could do better.
4. The uses of as such
5. Content/contents of the bottle is/are?
6. Each and everyone . . . .
7. Ann helped Mary by making sandwiches.
8. The uses of stricken
9. Anytime versus any time
10. Compare to versus compare with

LOG #525

1. Sneaked or snuck
2. Not all grants are created equally/equal.
3. Having read and considered the document. . .
4. Borders' public image
5. Two clauses coming after that
6. Why are pretzels shaped so weird/weirdly?
7. What is the correct way to designate time zones?
8. One in/and the same . . . .
9. Touting for Spanish tourists
10. Could where be used as a relative adverb?

LOG #526

1. Subject and verb in a prepositional phrase
2. What's wrong with this sentence?
3. What is as in "took part as passenger"?
4. The comparative forms of ill
5. Each and every one of them know/knows. . . .
6. Neither Fred, nor Joe, nor Sam, nor . . . .
7. Why a comma here, not a comma there?
8. A neither-nor question
9. Decision making or decision-making
10. He is expert in his field.

LOG #527

1. Conducive environment?
2. Using the phrase if not
3. "Yes, Ma'am," or "Yes, ma'am."
4. Using a comma before including
5. I felt like I was breathing water.
6. An or a SAP script?
7. It makes everyone feel/feels congenial.
8. The phrase for free
9. Using whose to refer to inanimate objects
10. The uses of even if

LOG #528

1. The plural of Notice of State Tax Lien
2. The Joneses' cat revisited
3. This session is anticipated to be the first in a series . . . .
4. Pronouncing "a"
5. Most of which is/are . . . .
6. The investigation had been commenced.
7. I envy your trip to Boston.
8. Working in a diner and studying at the university is/are . . .
9. Recreation/recreational alternatives
10. Had either swam out to the yacht or hitched a ride . . .

LOG #529

1. Thin arms lay limply beside her.
2. Using grow as a transitive verb.
3. Hopefully, revisited
4. The plural of abbreviated pajamas
5. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
6. He is survived by his wife, Lorraine of the home . . .
7. Richard King Jr's car
8. A child's writing exercise
9. The Lady Captain / The Ladies' Captain
10. The smell of sickness and medicine filled his nostrils.

 

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