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Now, don’t get me wrong; this is not a dig at greengrocers. Those hard-working people know lots more about fruit and veg than I do, so I don’t actually mind if they occasionally put an apostrophe in the wr...
Read moreThis is another of those conundrums we all face when we are working with words. Do I say ‘fewer vases’ or ‘less vases’? The answer is simple: if you can count the items you are talking about, y...
Read moreIn my work as a content specialist, I often find clients confusing the two words ‘lay’ and ‘lie’. It seems to me, that as we’ve forgotten the difference between these two words, we use th...
Read moreWe are all familiar with the idea of something being good, something else being better, and a third thing being the best. Good is the positive form of the adjective, better is the comparative form and best is the supe...
Read moreDeciding when to use capitals in your writing can be a bit of a fraught issue. Do we use capitals for people’s job titles? What about book titles? There are a couple of ways to go about deciding this, but my fir...
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