Grammar

The present perfect tense and its aspects are used more often in British than US English. It is one of the subtle distinctions between the two most spoken forms of English. This is why a writer or author needs to be careful with the choice of tenses. You need to maintain a consistent grammatical form,…

If you are a new writer or author, never trust grammar checkers 100% to correct your writing. With all the terrific online writing tools and correctors we use today, correcting writing mistakes seems easy. However, none of them are perfect. Even if you pay for a premium version, it can miss some errors, typos, and…

Did you say writing is easy? If you know your grammar, you will realize that this post’s title and first line contain a clumsy error. I used it because I often see this phrase online. It highlights how easy it is for an author or writer to type a bio on X (Twitter) or Facebook…

Can a collective noun use a singular or plural verb form? In some cases, collective nouns can take either singular or plural verbs. But it depends on which form of English you are using. The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. When is there a choice of verb…

Something for Star Wars grammar lovers. There is nothing better than a little inverted Yoda grammar to get the purists’ teeth gnashing. The fantastic infographic below gives a few examples of Yoda speak, which I have to admit I love. From inverted word order, or inversion, to dropping auxiliaries, moving modifiers, all the way through…