by Yen Cabag
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s bestselling series Anne of Green Gables put Canada’s Prince Edward Island on the map. If you haven’t read the book, you may be familiar with the ever-talkative and dreamy Anne Shirley from the Netflix TV series Anne with an E...
by Cole Salao
A mixed construction is an element of a sentence that doesn’t make sense, creating an illogical statement with incompatible elements (for example, when there’s a sudden shift in grammatical structure). You’ll probably catch most of these errors as...
by Kaelyn Barron
Writing is an inevitable part of pretty much any school subject, from history, to economics, and political science. And don’t forget those lab reports for chemistry and biology! As students prepare for college applications or entering the work force, writing...
by Cole Salao |
English can be a daunting language, especially in terms of spelling. The origins of words, their rules and conventions, and spelling’s evolving nature can leave you confused. Spelling errors happen all the time. They’re mostly harmless, and can be easily...
by Kaelyn Barron
Do you ever find yourself reaching for a word that you’re not really sure how to use, but it sounds more intellectual so you go for it? Many of us have made such hypercorrections before, when we incorrectly used a term or phrase that we thought sounded right,...
