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When is ‘a ticket’ just the ticket?

March 22, 2021December 3, 2018

I am always impressed by non-native speakers who take real pains to learn the ins and outs of English, and who get the details right in print and in conversation. It’s all the more frustrating, … Read more

Categories editing, learning, proofreading, speaking, writing Tags articles, definite article, punctuation

A note on apostrophes

March 18, 2021November 22, 2018

  The much-maligned apostrophe is actually an incredibly useful punctuation mark, allowing writers and editors to distinguish in print between plurals and possessive forms of nouns in sentences that may sound identical but mean very … Read more

Categories editing, proofreading, speaking, writing Tags london, punctuation, signage

Paying one’s dues

March 22, 2021November 13, 2018

A frequent question concerns the correct use of ‘owing to’ and ‘due to’. Both phrases originate in the world of finance and moneylending; and of course the word ‘due’ still has the sense of ‘money owed’ … Read more

Categories editing, proofreading, writing Tags grammar, predicate, prepositions, president, verbs

The dating game

March 22, 2021August 1, 2018

Some of the most confusing aspects of English style have nothing to do with sentences, words, or even letters, but numbers; for instance, the thorny question of when it is better to use digits (‘1…9’), … Read more

Categories editing, proofreading, writing Tags calendar, dates, months, numbers

English evolution

March 7, 2021July 1, 2018

English should be a relatively easy language to learn and use. After all, it has no genders (masculine or feminine), most plurals are made by the simple addition of ‘s’, and most verbs have a … Read more

Categories editing, learning, speaking, writing Tags american english, british english, history of the language, Oxford Dictionary
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