Tag: American English
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Common Errors Grammar Tip 25
Theatre versus theater—Do you prefer the look of “theatre” over “theater”? Many Americans do. The British spelling is posh. But is that the message it conveys?
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Common Errors Grammar Tip 16
The -ward words—Forward and backward? Or backwards and forwards? Of course, the terms aren’t interchangeable. But what about the spellings?
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Common Errors Grammar Tip 8
Punctuation with quotation marks—Does a period go inside or outside a closing quotation mark? What about a comma, a question mark, or a semicolon? This tip covers them all!