The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.—Michel de Montaigne
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Grammar school classroom, 1899. Image courtesy US Library of Congress.
Grammar Tips
If you’ve ever wondered what a dangling participle really is, hesitated at ending a sentence with a preposition, or scratched your head in wonder trying to decide if you should use “that” or “which” in your prose, we’re here to help. Our editors are in the process of building a collection of grammar tips as a free service to our clients. Whether you write for the Internet or are working on the next Great American Novel, we can help you clean up your sentences and get them ready for publication.
In addition, we have compiled a list of the grammar and style books we have in our office at Compass Rose Horizons.
If you would like to contribute an article or if there is a topic you’d like us to cover, please e-mail our editors at editor@compassrose.com.
- “A vs. An”
- “Dangling Modifier”
- “Grammar—A Linguistic Perspective”
- “Greengrocer’s Apostrophe”
- “Split Infinitive”
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