A questioner asks: With your permission I saw the above example for “with” as a preposition. Please explain to me its use and grammar. I always get confused by the… Read more »
Readers often ask a grammar question about whether to use a or an. This often occurs because they see a before a word beginning with a vowel, and they have… Read more »
A reader asked the following grammar question: Faced with danger, a human’s adrenalin will be produced much faster. Is this sentence correct? I think that “faced with danger” is a… Read more »
Gemma writes: Hi. I am teaching ellipsis to a group of students and I think I’ve confused myself! The long sentence is: How could their petition receive so many more… Read more »
Jose asks about the possessive gerund in my Free Grammar Questions, Which is correct? (1) She doesn’t approve of (me) or (my) gambling. (2) They insisted on (me) or (my)… Read more »
Audiences or Audience? Barry asked a question involving the word audience. Although his question was about verb tense, part of it included the sentence “Some audiences thought it was a… Read more »
I love it when people ask me grammar questions. Here are a few recent questions along with their answers. How many children did there used to be in class? or… Read more »
One of the most common grammar questions I get is: should the verb be singular or plural? Today, the question went like this: The line of girls (was/were) dancing. What… Read more »
A reader asks about the use of an elipsis: Do I capitalize the first letter of the word at it is the beginning of the quoted sentence even though it is… Read more »
When do you use a comma before as or because? Could you please explain when to use a comma before as and because? ASK A GRAMMAR QUESTION Commas are used… Read more »