Grammar Rules

Hand to the sky right now, I swear on my life, I didn’t think “effectually” was even a word the first time I heard someone say it. I was in 4th grade and my teacher, MIZZ JOHNSON, happened to say it while she was talking about…something. I don’t even remember what she was talking about, […]

If there are two words in the English language that frustrate me and make me irrationally angry, it’s stationary vs. stationery. Back in grade school as I was learned these words, I swore they were made up by teachers who wanted to see kids lose a spelling bee or fail a vocabulary list. I couldn’t

I don’t know why, of all the homophones, this is the pair that has always given me the hardest time! And of course, the more I think about it, the more Baloo’s song, Bare Necessities, runs through my head. No help!! At any rate, I’m tired of having to look up which one I mean

Always refer to me as your principal because I’m you’re pal! Do you remember your school’s principal ever saying that to you? I’ve had so many principals say it to me year after year that to this very day every time I print or type out the word, I hear them chanting. If you’ve ever

Like a lot of heavy readers, I learned about both elicit and illicit from reading, which meant learning about them through context. And like a lot of readers, the context of Elicit vs. Illicit relied heavily on the types of books I was reading. True story: I didn’t even realize they were two different words

The goose is on the loose, oh my!Flapping wings, aiming for the sky.The goose is on the loose, it’s true,Watch out now, it just might chase you! I can still hear my first grade teacher, Mrs Mosely, singing these words at the top of her lungs to try to tell us how to remember that