How to use an apostrophe (or, dirty, dirty grammar porn for filthy grammarians)
There are three things people love to use: hookers, commas, and apostrophes. Not sure if this sentence needs a break? Let’s put a comma – no wait make that 5 commas. What about this sentence concerning the Ellis brothers and their ownership of the sawmill? Put an apostrophe after the ‘b’ in ‘brother’ and then [...]
Expletive Construction is (expletive) awesome.
I was in an ESL class the other day and the topic was on subject verb agreement. An exercise question posed: There is/are four bananas on the table. Of course the answer is “are”, as the subject “four bananas” requires a plural verb. The word “there” in this case, is not the subject. I just [...]
