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1. PRINCESS OF PUNCTUATION This light-hearted lens is devoted to the power of proper punctuation. In a world suffering from "commatosis" not to mention that other fate worse than death, the plague of punctuation (also referred to in gravely serious grammar circles as "semi-co...
2. The Care and Feeding of Apostrophes     I'm here today to talk to you about a terrible tragedy that's sweeping our planet. It's not the disappearance of your favorite brands from the store courtesy of those dastardly Brand Police, nor is it the scented kitty...
3. Tips, Tricks, And Explanations For Complicated Grammar Rules English grammar has a million confusing and contradictory rules. The language has so many words in so many forms that it can be bewildering to figure out which one to use and why. This page will help. Look below for specific tips and links on commonly...
4. English Grammar Worksheets Writings Skills Playsheets The following grammar skills playsheets are provided free to homeschoolers and homeschooling parents and were created to inspire and captivate students who are able to choose what, when and how to study.    Not...
5. Tutorial: Fix the Most Common Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Mistakes QUICK CURES FOR "SPELLING AMNESIA." Nothing shoots your image in the foot faster than typos and spelling mistakes in your public documents. If you have to stop and think about which spelling to use for THEIR, THERE or THEY'RE; ITS vs IT'S;...
6. Quiz: How to Use the Apostrophe Incorrect apostrophe use honestly drives me nuts. Use of the apostrophe might seem like a little thing to you (and you can share your opinion later in the debate on this page). To me, though, it's very important, and quite frustrating, because so...
7. Write Good With Help From William Safire's Fumblerules Years ago, way before I was cornated as a Giant Squid, folks was always trying to illicit my good writing secrets. Heck, what was I suppose to do? Hoard them like a greedy miser in my chester drawers? Anyways, I could care less about there getting be...
8. Educational Posters for Homeschools and Anyone with Kids When you walk into our home, you can tell right away that education is a priority. We have posters on many of the walls. Most are educational posters, although we have quite a variety. We like posters as they are a low financial investment so we can...
9. Write Out of the Box Whether your literary ambitions include penning a unique, creative, inspired piece of word art or a guide to pruning your bushes or a letter to your Congressman, you still need a toolbox of writing resources. If you can manage to provide the words, I...
10. A Collection of Bad Grammah! Writing and social forums are full of conversations about bad grammar. "Should you use the terminal comma?" "Can you begin a sentence with 'but?'" Most importantly: "I can haz publishing contrakt?" Here's a small and growing collection of real ex...
11. Make a Reader Friendly Lens When I visit a lens or web page for the first time, I quickly scan down it to see if it covers material I want to read or look at. If it doesn't, or it's hard to tell, then I bounce off to look for somewhere that makes it easy to see it has what I wa...
12. Free Editing For Squidoo Lenses And Common Mistakes To Look For I'd be happy to help. As long as your lens isn't against Squidoo Terms of Service (TOS), spammy or in a language other than English, I'll give it a once over for spelling, punctuation and grammar. So, who am I to think I'm such a gre...
13. The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Book offers i...
14. English Corrector Hi, Partner! Greetings from South Central Idaho where hardly anybody speaks idiomatic English correctly. Here is an idiom: At night all cats look gray. Here is what it means: All women are alike. Anyway, the non formal English that we speak has i...
15. A Writer's Amusements What follows is a not very serious collection of items for the amusement of writers, editors and other word nerds, grammar geeks, punctuation poobahs, and innocent civilians who love language, writing, and books.
16. Best of All Words Copy-Editing and Proofreading Frequently, the first impression you make on others will be by way of your written words. Our experience has taught us that it's nearly impossible to detect all errors in your own documents. You need a fresh set of eyes and an unbiased mind, and that...
17. Show Some Love For The Exclamation Point! The exclamation point. Probably the loudest punctuation ever conceived. Most times when we see it, the exclamation point is a mouthful of words all on its own. Sometimes the punctuation will make the reader actually stop and take a breath, thereby so...
18. Learn About The Moon Bye bye Moon As you read this, the Moon is moving away from us. Each year, the Moon steals some of Earth's rotational energy, and uses it to propel itself about 3.8 centimeters higher in its orbit. Researchers say that when it formed, the Moon was a...
19. Do You Want to Improve Your English and Get Published? Many folks who want to become writers and have valuable stories to tell never become authors because they worry that their English isn't good enough to become successful. But what if you had a precise easily understandable guide that can help you imp...
20. Punctuation Punctuation, in written language, the use of standard marks to clarify meaning. Punctuation marks are also used to help convey the emphases and breathing pauses natural to speech, to indicate sentence structure, and to enhance readability. Punctuatio...