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Commonly Confused

Healthy vs. Healthful

Why both words are equally good for you.

Why both words are equally good for you.

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Healthy vs. Healthful

 

Why both words are equally good for you.

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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

 

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.

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'All Intensive Purposes' or 'All Intents and Purposes'?

 

We're intent on clearing it up

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Old-School Grammar

 

Many of today's grammar rules can be traced to the opinions of one 18th century writer.

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Ending a Sentence with a Preposition

 

An old-fashioned rule we can no longer put up with.

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Its vs. It's

 

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Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
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Blossom Word Game Pick the best words!
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