Welcome to a quiz on the often-confused words in last week’s post – with a few others and some word trivia thrown in. You will ace it! Scroll down at the end of the quiz for the answers.
The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such
10 Often-Confused Words
Is it “most” or “almost”? “Number” or “amount”? “Anyway” or “any way”?
Yikes!!!!!!! That Exclamation Point!
Did you know that there was no key on the standard manual typewriter that could make an exclamation point before the 1970s?
Fun with Misplaced Modifiers
In the English language, words are generally understood to go with the words that are near them. Putting words in other places in a sentence often makes the sentence unclear — or even silly. The problem is generally with misplaced or dangling modifiers. These modifiers are generally prepositional phrases or participial phrases. Misplaced phrases are […]
Those Pesky Pronouns: Best of the Grammar Diva
Pronouns are one of the eight parts of speech. They are used to stand in for a noun (or another pronoun), and they probably cause more trouble than any other part of speech. There are six varieties of pronouns.
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