Category Archives: grammar

Subject-Verb Agreement with There Is/There Are

Posted on March 11, 2008 by languageandgrammar

In an article about shopping for a car: There’s other ways to save money when buying a car. This grammar error has been spreading over the past few years like germs at a nursery school. Is (there’s, of course, means … Continue reading →

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47-Hour Weekend

Posted on March 7, 2008 by languageandgrammar

I have a confession to make: I didn’t know that it was daylight-saving time rather than Daylight Savings Time (with an s, no hyphen, and caps) until co-blogger Sherry Coven corrected me. She is, of course, right–as she always is–so you might be … Continue reading →

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The Conjugations of Lie and Lay

Posted on March 7, 2008 by languageandgrammar

The verb to lie means to rest or recline and is conjugated lie, lay, have/has lain. He lies silently in his bed. Yesterday, I lay on the beach. The dog has lain on the couch many times. The verb to … Continue reading →

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Say No to Income Coming In

Posted on March 6, 2008 by languageandgrammar

Don’t get me wrong–I’m not saying no to income, but I’m saying no to the redundant phrase income coming in. Income, of course, is money that you receive, which means money that comes to you. In other words, saying income … Continue reading →

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This Kind of Error Is Not the Same as These Sorts of Errors

Posted on March 5, 2008 by languageandgrammar

Kind of is singular, so the noun following it needs to be singular; kinds of is plural, so what follows needs to be plural. When either kind or kinds is preceded by a demonstrative pronoun, it should be this or … Continue reading →

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Spelling and Pronunciation Errors

Posted on March 3, 2008 by languageandgrammar

Today, I’ll tackle a few spelling and pronunciation errors that I come across more often than I think I should. Sometimes, we just get into bad habits, automatically repeating another person’s pronunciation or spelling without realizing that we’ve seen or … Continue reading →

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Rain Activity and Snow Events

Posted on March 1, 2008 by languageandgrammar

While riding the waves of the Internet, I stumbled across a blog entry that matched well with my recent entry about rain and snow (The Plurals are Rain and Snow). In fact, the entry in John McIntyre’s You Don’t Say … Continue reading →

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The Plurals Are Rain and Snow

Posted on February 29, 2008 by languageandgrammar

Here’s a look at your snows on your Saturday. We’re looking at wind-driven snows. I hear these kinds of things almost daily from both local and national weather personalities. The plural of rain is rain, and the plural of snow … Continue reading →

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The Reason is Already the Why

Posted on February 28, 2008 by languageandgrammar

I’ve already written about the redundancy of the reason is because, but I’ve noticed that many people are also curious about whether the reason why is correct grammar. Both the reason is because and the reason why have something very … Continue reading →

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Misremembered

Posted on February 25, 2008 by languageandgrammar

Everyone had a good laugh at Roger Clemens when he recently said  (at the congressional hearing about steroid use) that Andy Pettitte had misremembered since we all know that misremembered is obviously not a word. While I agree with those … Continue reading →

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