Grammar.com »
Found 1,295 articles matching: help+out+grammar Page #13
Font size:
| Fair vs. Fare English language is filled with difficult and puzzling type of words. One of the type of words is homophones that are pronounced the same way but mean and spell differently. The words we are discussi… |
| Altogether vs. All together It was an altogether decision to agree to all terms all together.If the above sentence has confused you to the core and you cannot decide if it’s right or wrong, worry not. We are here to help you wi… |
| Offer vs. Offering If "offer" and "offering" are confusing and causing you to question their accuracy in several phrases, then this article will certainly help you clarify some essential aspects about these words. Chec… |
| Moot vs. Mute Inexperienced English users can easily get tricked by “moot” and “mute”, maybe even tempted to pronounce them the same. But even though they sound similarly, they are spelled quite differently and su… |
| aide, aid The word aid is a verb that means “help.” We should note that aid may also be used as a noun in the same way that “help” can be used as both a noun and a verb. |
| cannot, can not, cannot but Use one word, not two. Thus: cannot. Can’t is the contracted form of cannot, meaning the negative of can. In formal writing, it … |
| Lie vs. Lye Words like lie are considered an irregular verb in the English language. Being a present principle ‘lie’, it refers to being untruthful. However, writing the same word with the alphabet ‘y’ makes it … |
| Subjective vs. Objective Statements that are facts based on evidence and opinions taken from valued judgments need to be differentiated in today’s extremely practical life. To differentiate such statements two terms; subject… |
| Amber and Igor - Primitive Ancestors You might think of nouns as naming words. It’s not hard to see why our primitive ancestors dreamed them up, at roughly the same time my eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Hamrick, came on the scene. … |
| Transitive and Intransitive The trick question we used above to determine whether a verb is transitive will always nail a verb as transitive or intransitive: Can I [verb] somebody or something? If yes, the verb is transitive. I… |
| Linking Verbs In point of fact, the verb to be is also a linking verb. But I prefer to put be in a category all by itself and then treat linking verbs separately. We learned above that the verb to be can connect a… |
| Developing Your Love Affair Falling in Love with the Verb Powerful words, these verbs. Maybe that’s why Hugo once said, “The word is the verb, and the verb is God.” Verb Power Pretty n… |
| Present Tense of Verbs Some authors write novels in the present tense, and it drives me bats. Whenever I browse in a bookstore, seeking the latest in top beach literature, I always sneak a few peeks to make certain the aut… |
| Past Tense - How to Form Here’s the tense the novelist should use, for the past tense describes what took place yesterday and not right now on the beach. Thus, from our novel of purple beach prose above: Juan looked<… |
| Six Major Tenses of Verbs Now you’re ready to conjugate to skip in the six tenses of verbs. To conjugate a verb, you must include all tenses: present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. You mu… |
| Conjugating Irregular Verbs Our grades plummeted when we had to conjugate irregular verbs in Miss Hamrick’s class. There was no way to figure out a scheme or system that would explain the necessary forms of irregular verbs, tha… |
| Positive, Comparative, Superlative Postive, Comparative, Superlative - Good, Better, Best Recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. Adjectives (and their first cousin, t… |
| Direct Object The language English is considered one of the easiest languages that exist. But when it comes to learning it and trying to understand it in a better way we come to know about so many things that one … |
| Common Traps to Avoid The English language can lay many traps for unwary writers, who can embarrass themselves by using a plural verb with a singular subject (more common) or a singular verb with a plural subject (less co… |
| Chapter 7 - “There,” “Their,” “They’re” “Their mixing up they’re theres.” I included this chapter at the request of my son. He says that everyone in his company confuses these three words. So I wrote the chapter and em… |
| Defamation vs. Slander vs. Libel Defamation, slander, and libel are often used interchangeably, and their meanings are often confused. Do they mean the same thing? These three terms belong to the same area of law and the… |
| Detailed or Concise Style Style of writing depends on the author and his/her personal preferences. However, sometimes, the nature of the content bounds the writer to choose a style that might be totally against his/her pe… |
| Idolatry vs. Idiolatry vs. Ideology: What’s the Difference Idolatry, idiolatry, ideology. These three words look somewhat the same. They sound somewhat the same. Do you think that these three words are similar in their meaning, as well? Cont… |
| Form vs. From Form Form is a noun that refers to the shape, structure, or appearance of something. It can also refer to a document that is filled out to provide information or a request for something. Additionall… |
| Breath vs. Breathe The air that you take into your lungs and breathe out again.If you are out of breath, you have difficulty breathing.When you say something under your breath, you say it very quietly. To take air i… |
