by Beth Sederstrom | Sep 12, 2019 | Commonly Confused Words, GrammarSpot, Writing Tips
Me, myself, and I is more than just a classic De La Soul track. It’s also a trio of words that are frequently mixed up — particularly me vs. I. Given how much we as human beings love to talk about ourselves, you’d think we’d know how to do it...
by Beth Sederstrom | Sep 9, 2019 | Commonly Confused Words, GrammarSpot, Writing Tips
Grammar would be so much easier if Prince invented it. For starters, you’d never have to worry about whether you should use to or too in a sentence. If Prince were in charge, the whole to vs. too issue would be moot because you’d just use the number 2...
by Beth Sederstrom | Sep 6, 2019 | Commonly Confused Words, GrammarSpot, Writing Tips
There are countless reasons why it’s important to understand the nuances of your vs. you’re, but one of them stands above the rest. One of them is vital to political discourse and woven into the fabric of our shared social contract in this American...
by Beth Sederstrom | Sep 4, 2019 | Commonly Confused Words, GrammarSpot, Writing Tips
Why is i.e. vs. e.g. such a common source of confusion for writers? I have one big, dusty old word for you: Latin. These two abbreviations both come from Latin, a language that very few people study, that even fewer people speak, and in which Shakira has written...
by Beth Sederstrom | Sep 2, 2019 | Commonly Confused Words, GrammarSpot, Writing Tips
Just like “Beauty and the Beast,” then vs. than is a tale as old as time. (Cue the Angela Lansbury jams and singing silverware.) Back in the 14th century, then and than meant basically the same things in Old English that they do today, but the two words...
