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Grammatically Correct Archive

 

Spelling and Diction

 

Date Title Contributors
07/07/2004 Which versus That Shawn Brett
07/13/2004 Using "In which" in Your Writing John Davis
08/03/2004 Who versus Whom Shawn Brett
David Felts
09/07/2004 Affect versus Effect David Felts
10/12/2004 Accept versus Except Kelli Trungale
10/19/2004 Lie versus Lay Shawn Brett
10/26/2004 Amount vs. Number, Few vs. Less  David Felts
11/02/2004 Rise versus Raise Shawn Brett
11/16/2004 Sit versus Set Shawn Brett
02/15/2005 Immigrate vs. Emigrate vs. Migrate Candice Chovanec Melzow
03/02/2005 When to Use: Cite, Site, and Sight W. Scott Harkey
03/09/2005 Advice versus Advise Kelli Trungale
03/15/2005 Complement versus Compliment Candice Chovanec Melzow
03/23/2005 When to use Their, There, They’re, and There’re John Davis
03/29/2005 Allusion versus Illusion Kelli Trungale
05/11/2005 When to Use: Continual or Continuous W. Scott Harkey
05/31/2005 When to use: “Due to” versus “because of” Kelli Trungale
06/14/2005 When to Use “Farther” Versus “Further” David Felts
06/22/2005 When to use: All Together and Altogether W. Scott Harkey
06/28/2005 Choosing Your Words Carefully: Connotations Enrich Meaning Kelli Trungale
07/12/2005 Preposition Problems: Among versus Between Candice Chovanec Melzow
07/19/2005 When to Use Ascent and Assent W. Scott Harkey
07/26/2005 Single Words versus Two-Word Phrases Candice Chovanec Melzow
08/09/2005 When to Use Disinterested and Uninterested W. Scott Harkey
09/06/2005 When to Use Good and Well W. Scott Harkey
09/20/2005 When to Use Assume and Presume David Felts
09/27/2005 When to Use Like or As W. Scott Harkey
10/04/2005 Different from versus Different than David Felts
01/03/2006 Using Conscience and Conscious Correctly W. Scott Harkey
01/17/2006 When to use Eminent, Imminent, and Immanent Kelli Trungale
01/24/2006 When to Use Especially and Specially W. Scott Harkey
02/07/2006 When to Use Ensure, Insure and Assure Candice Chovanec Melzow
03/07/2006 Using A and An David Felts
04/04/2006 Choosing Your Words Carefully: Wrong Word Candice Chovanec Melzow
04/25/2006 When to Use Discrete versus Discreet Kelli Trungale
06/06/2006 When to Use Adopt, Adapt, and Adept 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
08/08/2006 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
09/13/2006 When to Use Sale and Sell Kelli Trungale
11/14/2006 When to Use Than and Then Ernest Amador
11/28/2006 When to Use Who's and Whose Candice Chovanec Melzow
02/28/2007 Using “Alternate” or “Alternative” Amy Hatmaker
03/20/2007 When to Use Borrow, Lend and Loan Candice Chovanec Melzow
03/27/2007 When to Use Alive and Live Karalyn Jones
04/10/2007 When to Use Precede and Proceed Ernest Amador
05/15/2007 When to Use Already, Yet, Still Karalyn Jones
06/19/2007 Understanding the Use of Very, Too, and Enough Tracy Macias
06/26/2007 Understanding Real and Really Nick Jobe
07/03/2007 Whether (or Not) to Use Whether or Not Sophia Stevens
08/01/2007 When to Use Adopt and Adapt Candice Chovanec Melzow
08/07/2007 When to Use Moral, Morals and Morale Candice Chovanec Melzow
08/28/2007 Alot and Allot Karalyn Jones
09/11/2007 When to Use Statue, Stature, and Statute Nick Jobe
09/25/2007 When to Use Me, Myself, and I Nick Jobe
10/24/2007 Phrases to Avoid: Irregardless Sophia Stevens
10/31/2007 When to Use Former and Latter Candice Chovanec Melzow
11/06/2007 Imply and Infer Nick Jobe
11/20/2007 Cite, Site, or Sight? Nick Jobe
11/27/2007 When to use Anxious and Eager Karalyn Jones
01/08/2008 Using anyway and any way Karalyn Jones
02/05/2008 Compliment or Complement: Praise or Perfection? Karalyn Jones
03/04/2008 Phrases to Avoid: “Can’t Hardly” Sophia Stevens
03/25/2008 How and When to Use “Respectively” and “Respective” Sophia Stevens
04/08/2008 Using Sit or Set Nick Jobe
05/14/2008 Understanding Two Homophones: Brake vs. Break and Coarse vs. Course Karalyn Jones
05/28/2008 Anticipate or Expect: What’s next? Karalyn Jones
06/24/2008 Altogether & all together. Anytime & any time: What’s the difference? Karalyn Jones
07/01/2008 Phrases to Avoid: “Could of, Should of, Would of” Sophia Stevens
07/18/2008 Flaunt Your Knowledge of When to Use Flaunt and Flout Nick Jobe
08/19/2008 Using “Use” or “Utilize” Amy Hatmaker
09/24/2008 Choose Versus Chose: Which Choice Is Correct? Karalyn Jones
11/25/2008 When to Use: Adopted and Adoptive; Adapt and Adaptive Nick Jobe
02/24/2009 Avoiding As To Nick Jobe
04/08/2009 Adverse versus Averse Karalyn Jones
06/17/2009 When to Use Aggravate, Annoy, and Irritate Sophia Stevens
07/01/2009 When to Use On, Onto, and On to Sophia Stevens
07/09/2009 A “Gumshoes” Edition of Grammatically Correct: “The Case of Uninterested vs. Disinterested!” Katie Moody
08/19/2009 When to Use Beside and Besides Karalyn Jones