Don’t Take Prepositions So Literally!

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The Grammar Girl Week in Review Don’t Take Prepositions So Literally! Recently, we talked about whether to use the preposition by or on before the word accident, and we discovered that sometimes, the preposition that people use is based on how old they are or where they live. There were some interesting comments below that article about preposition-choice rules ...Read More 09/08/2016 11:45pm View           Short Shrift Has anyone ever given you the short shrift? If so, it probably didn’t feel good. When you get the short shrift, you’re treated unsympathetically. You get cursory attention and little time. ...Read More 09/08/2016 7:56pm View           How to Pronounce ‘Etcetera’ It’s pronounce “et-cetera,” (with a T sound) not “ex-cetera” (with an X sound). In fact, it comes from Latin and was originally written at two words: et and cetera,which translates to and the others. These days, it’s abbreviated etc., but what made me think of this topic is that in the old days, it was abbreviated with an ampersand followed by a C...Read More 09/08/2016 3:05pm View               FROM QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS Get More Grammar Girl Visit the website. Subscribe to the Grammar Girl podcast at iTunes or via RSS. Find Grammar Girl books, gear, and more at the Quick and Dirty Tips store. Have Questions? Search the Quick and Dirty Tips website. We have more than 600 articles about grammar and language. There's a good chance your question has already been covered.                 Best wishes, (and the Quick and Dirty Tips Team)                 Want more tips? If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 FOLLOW ME

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