Tag Grammar Workshop

Onomatopoeia is an essential part of everyday speech and writing. Learning resources.

A portmanteau is combining two words that touch on a meaning to create one word that conveys the meaning exactly.

Students have a tough time with certain confusing words. We’ve looked at perplexing prefixes, and pesky parts of speech. In this final installment we will look at: Shades of Meaning Many words have similar meanings. To choose from some of…

We are looking at confusing words. Last time we covered those pesky prefixes. Let’s take a look at: Parts of Speech Many confusing words can be differentiated by examining their use in the sentence. When presented with a difficult choice…

All writers can point to a collection of words and phrases that they find confusing—and each individual writer’s list looks a little bit different. Isn’t there a simple way to keep all of those similar-but-different words straight? Let’s take a…

Not all of the rules of possessive usage are set in stone. An apostrophe can provide the emphasis.

Basic Rules of the Possessive Case: Singular, plural, personal pronoun, and more!

The rules for possessives are as simple now as they ever have been.

Fumblerules show rather than tell students what not to do.  A common example of a fumblerule is the Plan Ahead poster where the d dangles off of the page because someone didn’t! William Safire was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, author, and…

In part one of this series, we introduced hyphenated compound adjectives, and discussed the historical use of hyphens, the dehyphenation trend, and general rules.  Now we come to the exceptions to the rules. Every grammar book’s list of exceptions is…