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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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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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Alright vs. All Right

 

Is 'alright' all right?

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On Contractions of Multiple Words

 

You all would not have guessed some of these

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'Mispronunciations' That May Be Fine

 

'Mischievous,' 'nuclear,' and other words to pronounce with caution.

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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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Lay vs. Lie

 

Editor Emily Brewster clarifies the difference.

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Who vs. Whom

 

Good news for those who feel stuffy saying 'whom.'