Grammar Nerd Articles - Table of Contents
Want to improve your grammar? Check out these articles by Tim Burke from previous newsletters (below).
Fall/Winter '24: The Oxford comma, when to use it, when not to (see what I did there?)
Spring ’24 Issue 11--Comma Rule 2: Intro Comma
Fall ’23 Issue 10--semicolon
Spring ’23 Issue 9--No grammar nerd column!
Spring ’22 Issue 8--odds and ends:
- Could’ve/should’ve/would’ve = could have/should have/would have
- Past tense versus past perfect
- ellipsis
- capitalization common errors
Fall ’21 Issue 7--Dialogue issues (tag in the middle of dialogue, nonspeaking verb/verbs in tags)
Spring ’21 Issue 5--Apostrophe (possession/its vs. it’s); Wrong plurals with apostrophes the Smiths/Smith’s
Fall 2020 Issue 4--
- Indent 1st line
- Inner dialogue
- Interrobang
- Idioms: on purpose/on accident
- Lie/lay
Spring ’20 Issue 3--Pronoun Twins
Summer ’19 Issue 2--Lie/Lay
Spring ’19 Issue 1--Comma Rule 1: FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
- Advanced topic: end punctuation (abbreviations w period/interrobang/question marks in and out of dialogue)