Imagine that you’ve just arrived home from a vacation where everything that could have gone wrong did. Your all-to-cheery sister wants to hear all of your stories and see all of your pictures, but all you can do is vent:
Imagine eating your way through half of your leftover holiday treats only to feel sick 20 minutes later. (Your body doesn’t like what you just did to it, and you better bet that it’s going to tell you). You might
Do you have friends or colleagues who like to embellish their stories? If you do, you might say that these people have a habit of overexaggerating. But maybe you’ve had someone stop you in your verbal tracks by telling you
As the public/pubic and Hadron/Hardon typos show, a single letter can make all the difference in a word. Luckily, changing one letter in a word doesn’t always lead to an embarrassing typo. But it can still change the meaning of
Are you struggling to figure out what the issue in the sentence above is? You know that there isn’t a typo, a spelling mistake, or a punctuation error. So what’s the problem? It lies in the sixth word in the
If you’re someone who writes or creates content, there’s a dilemma you’ve probably faced: whether to use “before” vs. “prior to” in a particular sentence. For example, which one could you use here: “We considered all the evidence _____ making
Are you someone who hates having to decide what to wear in the morning, where to go out for dinner, or what to do on a Saturday night? If so, you may be a big fan of the slash –
Are you looking at the sentence in the image above and feeling stumped about what the problem is? You’re probably not the only one. The sentence has the unfortunate fate of containing a dangling modifier. In today’s blog post, we’ll
Today, we’ve got something for you that’s especially tricky (or enlightening, depending on whether you’re a “glass half full” or “glass half empty” kind of person). In most of our previous posts on commonly misused words, we talk about the
Imagine that you’re a hiring manager and you’re sifting through a stack of resumes to find your next great hire. One application, in particular, catches your eye: the candidate has a pretty decent skill set for the job and worked