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GrammarBook.com | The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Facebook TwitterYouTube E-Newsletter Signup Menu Search Submit Subscribe to Quizzes Quiz Subscriber Login Search Submit Home Order the Book English Rules Grammar Rules Punctuation Rules Capitalization Rules Rules for Writing Numbers Confusing Words and Homonyms Quizzes FREE Quizzes Subscription Quizzes Grammar Blog English Usage Videos Writing Services Contact Grammar Blog Welcome to the GrammarBook.com blog, where you’ll find a wealth of information about grammar and writing in American English. Bookmark this page for quick and easy access to our most current newsletter as well as recent articles. You can also search for your subject of interest or choose from our popular grammar and punctuation categories. If you have a thought or a question about a particular subject, simply leave us a comment in the box at the bottom of the article’s page. Top 10 Grammar Mistakes in English Posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 6:00 am Grammar mistakes remain common in daily communication. While those of us who spend time at GrammarBook.com can reduce such solecisms, even the most observant can still potentially be duped by the occasional sneaky error. Because grammar mistakes in American English have always been and likely always will be, we thought it’d be fun and informative … Read More Sibilance: Definition and Examples Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 6:00 am The art of language embraces sound just as it does precision and eloquence of written expression. For example, along the way we’ve discussed alliteration, which is the repetition of two or more neighboring sounds of words, often initial letters, to create a phonetic device: simple story accept and excel The repeating alliterative sounds occur either … Read More What Is Epenthesis? Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 6:00 am Language evolves as we do. Over time, we become agents of change in shaping words to suit our sense of comfort, ease, and desired sound. This agency appears when we add a sound to a word that is already established without it. For instance, perhaps we have said or heard "athlete" pronounced as "ath-uh-lete" or … Read More Consonance: Definition and Examples Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 6:00 am The impact of language is often just as much about its sound as its meanings and organization of words. When used with skill and well-aimed subtlety, certain devices in American English can add extra voice and harmony to our writing. Read the following aloud to yourself: If we’re lucky, the truck’s gear shift won’t get … Read More Elision: Definition and Examples Posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 6:00 am If you care to be honest, you’ll admit that Delilah is a ne’er-do-well. Ralph should probably offer to share that ham sandwich, or Billy Ray is gonna snatch it from him anyway. Coulda, shoulda, woulda: This is what happens when we don’t change the oil. Many of us who use American English have probably read, … Read More Assonance: Definition and Examples Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 6:00 am Language provides more than the means to express and deliver ideas and information. It also bears the power to please us through the tools we use to shape it. Thoughtful, eloquent communication can satisfy the outer and inner ear as much as awaken the mind. One technique that attracts us to writing and speech is … Read More Alliteration: Definition and Examples Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, at 6:00 am Writing reflects music in that it offers its own types of accents for a composition’s structure and sound. They are not central features but rather grace notes that can add melody, rhythm, and voice to our sentences. One such grace note in writing is alliteration: the repetition of two or more neighboring sounds of words, … Read More Using sic in 2024 Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at 6:00 am An item that still periodically surfaces among GrammarBook.com readers is the proper use of sic. Sic is a Latin term meaning "so, thus." A complete word that requires no punctuation or abbreviation, it is found only in direct quotations and other directly quoted material to indicate that something was communicated "in this manner." Writers include it … Read More Year-End Quiz: 2023 Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, at 6:00 am As we learned together in 2023, we can explore a lot of grammatical ground during twelve months. Between January and December, we reviewed subjects from stative verbs to nominal numbers to anastrophe. We look forward to continuing more linguistic review and discovery with you in 2024. Before we move farther down the trail, we’ll first … Read More Mnemonic Devices Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at 6:00 am The human brain contains 100 billion neurons, 400 miles of capillaries, 100,000 miles of axons, and an estimated 100 trillion synaptic connections. Scientists estimate that if the modern human brain were a computer, its storage would be up to 2,500 terabytes (as of 2023, the world’s largest commercial hard drive is 100TB). 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