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Punctuation

• Using a Comma before And
• Using the Serial Comma (the comma before and in a list)
• Punctuating with Parentheses
• Using the Semicolon
• Using the Colon
• Using Commas between Coordinate Adjectives
• Punctuating with Quotation Marks: Part One
• Punctuating with Quotation Marks: Part Two

Grammar

• Deciding If Collective Nouns (such as team, committee, faculty, and so forth) Are Singular or Plural
• Splitting Infinitives
• Ending Sentences with Prepositions
• Maintaining Parallel Structure
• Starting Sentences with And or But
• Avoiding Four Verb Errors
• Understanding the Passive Voice
  (transitive passive verbs vs. transitive active verbs)
• Using the Possessive Case with Gerunds
  (Why we should write "I am bothered by his being late," and not "by him being late")
• Signing Your Holiday Greetings: Plural vs. Possessive?
  (Happy holidays from "the Williamses" or "the Williams'?)
• Using the Posessive Case: The Issue of Ownership
• Understanding the Subjunctive Mood
  (If I were or was?)
• Using Modifiers with Precision: The Case for Only
• Using Comparatives and Superlatives
• Understanding Reflexive Pronouns
  (When to use the pronouns that end with the suffix -self, such as myself, herself, etc.)
• Recognizing Singular Indefinite Pronouns: Part One
  (The indefinite pronouns everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, and so forth are singular, so pronouns that refer to them must also be singular.)
• Recognizing Singular Indefinite Pronouns: Part Two
  ("Either is" or "either are"? "Neither is" or "neither are"?)
• Making Nouns Possessive When They End in s, x, sh, ch, and z
• Making Verbs Agree with Relative Pronouns
  (Should we write "which is" or "which are," "that is" or "that are"?)
• Deciding if Nouns are Possessives or Attributive
  (When to use apostrophes in titles and names such as "Father's Day," "Veterans Day," "Bankers Association," and "English Majors Society")

Mechanics

• Capitalizing Appropriately: Proper vs. Common Nouns and Adjectives
  (Addresses the fact that people tend to over-capitalize words in sentences)
• Handling Vertical Lists
  (Issues that must be addressed when using bulleted or numbered lists)
• Capitalizing Words in Titles
• Handling the Titles of Works
• Handling the Titles of People and Positions
• Using Numbers
• Typing Characters That Are Not on the Keyboard
• Handling Ellipses
  (Those groups of three and four "periods" that indicate missing words)
• Hyphenating Compound Words
• Using One or Two Spaces after Periods (and other typography issues)
• Understanding En Dashes and Em Dashes
• Using Hyphens in Adjective Phrases

Word Usage

• Which or That?
• Who or Whom?
• The Verb Include to Preface a List
• Nauseous or Nauseated?
  (Do you, yourself, feel ill, or do you make others feel ill?)
• "The Reason Is Because" or "The Reason Is That"?
• Words Related to Graduates, Graduation, and Degrees
• Cyberlanguage (see also "Update on Cyberlanguage" below)
• Update on Cyberlanguage
• Regardless or Irregardless?
• Sit and Set
• Lie and Lay
• Anymore and Everyday
• Good and Well as Modifiers
• The Latin Abbreviations i.e. and e.g.
• Anxious and Eager
• The Prefixes Bi and Semi
• Bring and Take
• The Articles A and An
• Drug/Dragged and Loan/Lend
• Here and There
• Between and Among
• I and Me
• Effect and Affect
• Like and As
• Criteria and Media
• Bad or Badly?
• Less or Fewer?

Other Topics

• Style Manuals