January 2012
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Thank You, Awesome Followers! Happy New Year!
December 2011
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Yo, Gaga: "What's Up With 'You and I'"?
For more on this topic, click HERE.
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What's Up With "Irony" and "Coincidence"?
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What's Up With "Anxious" and "Eager"?
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What's Up With "Amid" and "Amidst"?
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What's Up With Hyphens?
Click HERE for GrammarBook’s excellent post on hyphens.
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What's Up With Syntax and Diction?
Eminem image source: Hip Hop Galaxy
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What's Up With "Advisor" and "Adviser"?
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What's Up With Adjectives and "Most" or "-est"?
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Why You Should NEVER Trust Microsoft with Your...
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What's Up With the Subjunctive Mood?
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What's Up With "Into," "In to," "Onto," and "On...
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What's Up With "May" and "Might"?
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What's Up With Compound Possessives?
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What's Up With "Historical" and "Historic"?
P.S. Thanks for the love, anon!
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What's Up With "Anyway" and "Anyways"?
NOTE: FYI, the “whats” in Paris’s thought bubble is intentional; it is parallel with “Thats” on her T-shirt.
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What's Up With "Discreet" and "Discrete"?
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What's Up With "E.G." and "I.E."?
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What's Up With This Post on Zappos?
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What's Up With "Will" and "Would"? (And "Shall"...
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What's Up With Prepositional Idioms?
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What's Up With . . . the Ellipsis?
Click HERE for an excellent post on the ellipsis, including how to use them in formal writing (e.g., in citing quotations).
The plural of “ellipsis” is “ellipses.”
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What's Up With "Sleight"?
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What's Up With "Commoratio"?
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What's Up With Commas and Quotations?
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What's Up With "Affect" and "Effect"?
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What's Up With Ending Sentences With Prepositions?
Preposition error image source: elisssabeth
“Myth Busted” image source: tvtropes (based on “MythBusters”)
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What's Up With "Toward" and "Towards"?
“Mr. T riding bike with gold chain wheels” by Mike Joos
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How to Pull an All-Nighter Effectively and Still...
Source: The Old Gold and Black
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What's Up With "Whom" and "Who"?
If this is still confusing to you, rephrase your sentence to avoid the entire who/whom problem.
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What's Up With "Eponyms"?
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What's Up With "Despite" and "In Spite of," and...
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What's Up With Comma Splices?
Click HERE to learn about coordinating conjunctions (aka “FANBOYS”) that fix comma splices;
Click HERE for PWN the SAT’s excellent post on run-on sentences and fragments.
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What's Up With "Until," "Till," and "'Til"?