Friday, October 29, 2010

Let’s say goodbye to those irritating English clichés

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Do you very often catch yourself peppering your conversations or extemporaneous remarks with the expressions “with all due respect” or “to b...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

My misgivings when people wish me to have more power

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Not being a politician nor a petty potentate, I don’t relish the idea of people wis hing me more power in the closings of their e-mails or s...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

The appropriate way to position subordinate clauses and phrases

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The serious student of writing in English soon discovers that formal expository writing and newspaper journalism differ profoundly in their ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Steeling ourselves against common subject-verb disagreement pitfalls

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In last week’s edition of My Media English Watch, I reported this very serious grammar faux pas—a Facebook friend of mine called it an “epic...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

A unified approach to the use of punctuation in English – Part III

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As with all the alphabet-based languages, English is primarily dependent on word choices and their combinations for the successful delivery ...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

A unified approach to the proper use of punctuation in English – Part II

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As with all the alphabet-based languages, English is primarily dependent on word choices and their combinations for the successful delivery ...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

A unified approach to the proper use of punctuation in English

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As with all the alphabet-based languages, English is primarily dependent on word choices and their combinations for the successful delivery ...