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Category Archives: Grammar
Only if…
Starting a full sentence with those two words is pretty much guaranteed to get your knickers in a twist, grammatically.
Usage and abusage
In contrasting pairs like this, the form without the prefix comes first. You can’t say “abusage and usage” of word order.
Using “a” and “an” with digits
As a greeting or introduction, it’s always “welcome to” rather than “welcome at” or “welcome on” or any other such preposition.
A word of welcome
As a greeting or introduction, it’s always “welcome to” rather than “welcome at” or “welcome on” or any other such preposition.
Responding to…
In Dutch, literally translated, you “respond on” a question or give an “answer on” a problem. English uses “to”.
The singular ‘they’
“If the patient can’t sleep, ask them if they need pain-killers.” This usage is perfectly acceptable.
“Check out the brain on Brad”
You’ve only got one brain, even if you’ve got a lot of brains. Uh?
A black-and-white issue?
You’d think colours are pretty elementary and there ought to be no mistakes there. But there are still pitfalls when colours are combined.
A new threat
Dutch doesn’t have words that end in D. Or rather, the pronunciation is the same as a final T so they have a hard time distinguishing the two.
