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Steve Ayers 
Reading Time: 3 minutes When students ask too many questions about commas, teachers often revert to a classic piece of advice during comma instruction: put a comma where you pause. This advice leads to confusion when a writer eventually learns that isn’t a rule. So why do teachers tell … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes You can use passive sentences when you want to emphasize the action being taken, to avoid repetition, and when a situation applies to the general public.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Conjunctive adverbs are a type of connecting words, similar to words such as because or after.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Think you can identify conjunctive adverbs? Click on the image and find out. Curious who makes the rules we have to follow? Then check out Who Makes Grammar Rules.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Semicolon rules have changed. But the changes happened a century ago, so the rules you learn now should last you awhile.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Grammar jokes can be groaners. Quiz yourself on the punchlines of these jokes.
