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Grammatically Correct Archive: 2006

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Date Title Contributors
01/03/2006 Using Conscience and Conscious Correctly W. Scott Harkey
01/10/2006 Using Slashes Correctly Candice Chovanec Melzow
01/17/2006 When to use Eminent, Imminent, and Immanent Kelli Trungale
01/24/2006 When to Use Especially and Specially W. Scott Harkey
01/31/2006 Avoiding Faulty Predication David Felts
02/07/2006 When to Use Ensure, Insure and Assure Candice Chovanec Melzow
02/14/2006 Avoiding Mixed Metaphors David Felts
02/21/2006 Active Voice vs. Passive Voice Kelli Trungale
02/28/2006 Using and Abbreviating Latin Expressions Candice Chovanec Melzow
03/07/2006 Using A and An David Felts
03/14/2006 Differences between Adjectives and Adverbs W. Scott Harkey
03/16/2006 Celebrate St. Patrick's Day: Write Your Own Limerick Trish Wayne
03/21/2006 Faulty Comparisons: Comparing Apples and Apples Sandra Heinold
03/28/2006 Participles as Verbals: Forms and Uses Candice Chovanec Melzow
04/04/2006 Choosing Your Words Carefully: Wrong Word Candice Chovanec Melzow
04/11/2006 Using Pronouns to Establish Links Between Sentences W. Scott Harkey
04/18/2006 Avoiding Trite Language and Overused Expressions Candice Chovanec Melzow
04/21/2006 Write a Sonnet to Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday Kelli Trungale
04/25/2006 When to Use Discrete versus Discreet Kelli Trungale
05/02/2006 Using Reflexive Pronouns Candice Chovanec Melzow
05/09/2006 When to Capitalize Academic Degrees David Felts
05/16/2006 Recognizing the Four Basic Sentence Types Lisa Bullock
05/23/2006 Using Commas with Geographical Names, Postal Addresses and Dates Lisa Bullock
05/30/2006 Unnecessary Colons and How to Replace Them Kelli Trungale
06/06/2006 When to Use Adopt, Adapt, and Adept David Felts
06/13/2006 Using Commas with Multiple Descriptive Adjectives Candice Chovanec Melzow
06/20/2006 The Placement of Modifiers Kelli Trungale
06/27/2006 Leaving Off the Article David Felts
07/04/2006 Articles with Geographic Location David Felts
07/11/2006 Plurals of Letters, Abbreviations, and Numbers David Felts
07/18/2006 When to Use: You and Me versus You and I Kelli Trungale
07/25/2006 Decent, Descent, Dissent Kelli Trungale
08/01/2006 Adjectives vs. Adverbs Tracy Macias
08/08/2006 Suffix Spelling Rules: Silent  –E and Suffixes Beginning with a Vowel Candice Chovanec Melzow
08/15/2006 Suffix Spelling Rules: Silent –E and Suffixes Beginning with a Consonant Candice Chovanec Melzow
08/22/2006 Prefixes: Common Spelling Mistakes Candice Chovanec Melzow
08/29/2006 Punctuating Parenthetical Expressions Using Commas Dinah Crockett
09/05/2006 Using Subordination to Highlight Your Main Point Dinah Crockett
09/13/2006 When to Use Sale and Sell Kelli Trungale
09/19/2006 Using Compound and Complex Sentences to Avoid Redundancy Dinah Crockett
09/26/2006 Using the Objective Case vs. the Subjective Case Dinah Crockett
10/04/2006 Using Correlative Conjunctions Kelli Trungale
10/10/2006 Subject/Verb Agreement When Using Compound Subjects Ernest Amador
10/17/2006 Subject/Verb Agreement When Using Nouns of Measurement Ernest Amador
10/25/2006 Subject/Verb Agreement When Using Collective Nouns Ernest Amador
11/01/2006 Verb Agreement When Using "The Number" or "A Number" as Subjects Ernest Amador
11/07/2006 Avoiding Shifts in Person Candice Chovanec Melzow
11/14/2006 When to Use Than and Then Ernest Amador
11/22/2006 Using Vivid Verbs to Create Better Sentences Candice Chovanec Melzow
11/28/2006 When to Use Who's and Whose Candice Chovanec Melzow
12/07/2006 Resend: Amount versus Number, Few versus Less (Originally Published on 10/26/2004) David Felts
12/13/2006 Resend: Conjunctive adverbs—what they are and how to use them (Originally Published on 11/9/2004) Shawn Brett
12/21/2006 Resend: Editing/Proofreading Checklist (Originally Published on 7/20/2004) David Felts