Usage Lessons

1.         The deceptive plurals

2.         The deceptive past (tense)

3.         The deceptive possessive

4.         The deceptive period

5.         The deceptive apostrophe

6.         Subject and verb agreement, agreeing to disagree:

7.         Collective nouns and subject-verb agreement

8.        Proximity, continued, with a twist (and sex, too)

9.        Pronouns chasing nouns

10.         Spell check nonsense1

11.         Lay about and lie about (Did the boy say, “I just got lied”?

12.        The dangling phrase and other obscenities

13.       The Comma Splice, or making the comma do slave labor

14.       You be the judge: what’s the sentence?

15.       The audience as ghosts