test blog archives

January 2017

• The Grammar Factor: name change, online pricing change, apostrophes with 'every'
• The Grammar Factor: punctuation with however, which and that, board papers

November 2016

• The Grammar Factor: punctuation with brackets, provided, solely, Facebook group

October 2016

• The Grammar Factor: design with words, 'he' or 'him' after 'than'?
• The Grammar Factor: online board paper course, v. for versus, punctuation with viz.

September 2016

• The Grammar Factor: punctuation with abbreviations, collective nouns, podcasts

July 2016

• The Grammar Factor: parts of speech/word classes, initial capital letters

June 2016

• The Grammar Factor: avoid overusing initial capitals, write effective emails

May 2016

• The Grammar Factor: capitals in titles and headings, punctuation with brackets

April 2016

• The Grammar Factor: styles with lists, gender-neutral pronoun, tree failure
• The Grammar Factor: shortened words, email greetings, dependent/dependant

February 2016

• The Grammar Factor: acronyms, missing and hated words, taming templates

January 2016

• The Grammar Factor: spacing after end punctuation, capitals

December 2015

• The Grammar Factor: writing styles, apostrophes, appendices/appendixes

November 2015

• The Grammar Factor: writing in the third person, double possessive

August 2015

• The Grammar Factor: hanging hyphens, compound adjectives, 20 years' or years experience
• Hanging hyphens
• The Grammar Factor: commas with 'and', 'myself', 'whose' for things

July 2015

• The Grammar Factor: writing standards, while/whilst, can?

May 2015

• The Grammar Factor: acronyms in summaries, media is/are

April 2015

• The Grammar Factor: numbers in business writing, apostrophes in place names

March 2015

• The Grammar Factor: website relaunch offer, quotes within quotes
• The Grammar Factor: florid language of political reporting, notes and note

January 2015

• The Grammar Factor: Write to Govern, dependent/dependant, spelling

November 2014

• The Grammar Factor: simply, mondegreens, question marks and quotes
• The Grammar Factor: e-newsletters on writing, under the pump

October 2014

• The Grammar Factor - what grammar rules do you break?

August 2014

• The Grammar Factor – words we dislike, hyphens in titles, numbers

July 2014

• The Grammar Factor: words, words, words, farthest/furthest

June 2014

• The Grammar Factor – initial capitals, apostrophes, quotation marks

May 2014

• The Grammar Factor – overloaded sentences, loose and lose

April 2014

• The Grammar Factor – irregular verbs, dive/dove, practice/practise

March 2014

• The Grammar Factor – pronouns, beef and beeves, disconnect

February 2014

• The Grammar Factor – dose/dosage, apostrophes, apostrofly

January 2014

• The Grammar Factor – why learn grammar?

December 2013

• The Grammar Factor – as and because, defined terms, titles, than I

November 2013

• The Grammar Factor – dates, apostrophes, translation glitches

September 2013

• The Grammar Factor – MOOCs, learnt/learned, truncated sentences

August 2013

• The Grammar Factor – & & ?, position of adverbs, hyphenation

July 2013

• The Grammar Factor - word choice, options/alternatives, relations/relatives

June 2013

• The Grammar Factor - and/or, agreement and overuse of 'the'

May 2013

• The Grammar Factor – commonly confused words, commas with 'and'
• The Grammar Factor - who/whom, direct/indirect questions, tone, email signoffs

April 2013

• The Grammar Factor – hyphens, plurals of distances and areas

February 2013

• The Grammar Factor – exclamation marks, ranges, oral vs verbal
• Books and websites about grammar

January 2013

• The Grammar Factor - who and that, typos, grammar jargon
• The Grammar Factor - Mother's Day, break in or break-in, plural of status

December 2012

• The Grammar Factor: power of four, email webinar, ESL Grammar

November 2012

• Singular or plural: news, measles, number of, pair, half, kilometres, dollars?
• The Grammar Factor - prescriptive/descriptive grammar, styles, quotation marks

October 2012

• Dog breeds and capital letters
• Commas, typos, confused words, text alignment
• Commonly confused words

September 2012

• However, introductory ESL offer, advisor/adviser

August 2012

• The Grammar Factor - just three dots, anticipate and expect, different from

July 2012

• The Grammar Factor - such as, a or an with acronyms
• The role of hyphens in writing

June 2012

• The Grammar Factor - serial commas, apostrophes in place names

May 2012

• Writing style tip: how to avoid sexist language
• Online Writing Training's online apostrophe course
• Writing style tip: how to use different types of brackets

April 2012

• Writing style tip: how to use legal and government terms
• The Grammar Factor - as versus like, annexure and appendix
• Writing style tip: how to use ellipses
• Writing style tip: how to write greetings and sign-offs
• Writing style tip: how to use shortened word forms

March 2012

• Writing style tip: how to write numbers
• Writing style tip: how to write dates
• Top 10 grammar myths: you must distinguish between as and like
• Top 10 grammar myths: you must always use the active voice and never mix active and passive
• Top 10 grammar myths: data is plural so must take a plural verb
• Top 10 grammar myths: none always takes a singular verb
• Top 10 grammar myths: you must not use the singular 'they'
• Top 10 grammar myths: you must not start a sentence with however or hopefully
• Top 10 grammar myths: you must say 'it is I' not 'it is me'
• The Grammar Factor - apostrophes, pole position, squeezed middle
• Top 10 grammar myths: you must not split an infinitive
• Top 10 grammar myths: you must not end a sentence with a preposition
• Top 10 grammar myths: you can't start a sentence with And or But
• Homonyms: confusing words that sound the same
• Top 10 grammar tips: who and whom
• Top 10 grammar tips: modifier problems
• Top 10 grammar tips: unclear pronoun referencing
• Top 10 grammar tips: dependent and dependant
• Top 10 grammar tips: its and it's
• Top 10 grammar tips: affect and effect
• Top 10 grammar tips: company names - singular or plural?
• Top 10 grammar tips: I and me
• Top 10 grammar tips: which and that

February 2012

• The Grammar Factor, February 2012 - when to use I and me

January 2012

• The Grammar Factor, January 2012 - a and an with historic

December 2011

• 2011 archive
• The Grammar Factor - December 2011

November 2011

• The Grammar Factor, November 2011
• The Grammar Factor - November 2011 (first edition)

October 2011

• The Grammar Factor - October, 2011

September 2011

• Factorial - September 2011
• The Grammar Factor - September 2011

August 2011

• The Grammar Factor, August 2011
• Factorial, August 2011

July 2011

• The Grammar Factor - July 2011

June 2011

• Factorial - June 2011
• The Grammar Factor - June 2011

May 2011

• The Grammar Factor - May 2011

April 2011

• Factorial - April 2011
• The Grammar Factor - April 2011

March 2011

• Factorial - March 2011
• The Grammar Factor - March 2011

February 2011

• Factorial - February 2011
• The Grammar Factor - February 2011

January 2011

• Factorial - January 2011
• The Grammar Factor - January 2011