Common Mistakes

Personal pronouns are so useful; we scatter them through our sentences without a second thought. …

Any Star Trek fan will instantly recognize the phrase “to boldly go where no one …

Writers like to assume that readers can read minds. Would you know what I mean …

So, have you ever wondered whether it’s allowable to start a sentence with a meaningless …

We are firmly in the thorny territory of the separation of American English from British …

One of these is not like the others! And since language is a living thing, …

We can all agree that I am, you are, and they are all aware of …

The battle for self-expression in American culture is caught between two competing ideologies: to be …

English grammar can be at its worst when certain key words are left out. We …

People love making lists, particularly when those lists involve either things to do or things …