grammar – Right Angels and Polo Bears

Would you believe that ‘that’ isn’t needed?

Is “that” needed? A roundup of advice from various style guides on the use of “that” in sentences.

Got acronyms? Here’s how to style them in your work, plus when to explain them and how.

Grammar checking: troubled waters but big improvements for Word’s spellcheck. And now, with the introduction of “Editor” in Word 365

“But you’re missing words!” “But everyone knows what they are.” It’s a legit grammatical structure. Why the grammatical ellipse works

Question marks can be optional, eh? The Canadian Style (guide) shows us that sometimes questioning words are actually forming a

Today, in my special Canadian, Eh? post for National Grammar Day, at Copyediting.com, I look at the role of commas

Picks from the interwebs this week for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: going freelance mid-career (case studies) sentence diagraming guide

Picks from the interwebs this week for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: science of why a second monitor is the

This week’s roundup of internet stuff and things for publications and science types (with some nothing-but-fun thrown in for balance):

This week’s roundup of internet stuff for gangbangin’ publications playaz and science mofos: a plea for science communication diagramming