Mass Nouns and Count Nouns
Amount and number (the nouns, not the verbs) often get misused. Amount is a mass noun and you use it…
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Walk Toward, Not Towards
In US English, you usually leave off the s on directional terms like toward, forward, and backward. Even though this…
Amid and Among
Writers often get mass nouns and count nouns confused. Among is used with count nouns—meaning you use it with things…
A Few Misused Words I Can Accost You With
I like to keep a list of words that are used incorrectly; here are a few. You might want to…
Don’t “Try and” Do Anything!
One of my big pet peeves is the “try and” construction, which many writers fall victim to because we have…
Speaker Tags ~ You Can’t Cough Speech
Speaker tags can only use verbs that can be used to create speech. Writers often get creative in their speaker…
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