GrammarPhile Blog

Each week (well mostly!) our team posts articles to the GrammarPhile blog that we hope you find helpful and interesting. Our goal is to provide posts that you look forward to reading and that you find helpful as you go through your daily work routine. But I sometimes wonder if we're giving you what you'd really like to read. So this week, I'm inviting you to give us your feedback.

Time for another vocabulary test. Answers are located at the bottom of this post. But don't cheat -- see how many of these you get correct!

We left you dangling on whether or not to split infinitives when writing your business communcations. We conclude today with the straight dope on the subject.

Infinitives are used in many of the corporate communications we review. But what is the best way to use them? Let's take at look this week.

Before we take you to our vocabulary quiz, here's something fun to try! This is interesting, and proves that the brain is a marvelous work of creation!

Instructions: Just read the following sentence straight through without really thinking about it:

Acocdrnig to an Elgnsih unviesitry sutdy, the oredr of letetrs in a wrod dosen't mttaer, the olny thnig thta's iopmrantt is that the frsit and lsat ltteer of eevry word is in the crcreot ptoision. The rset can be jmbueld and one is stlil albe to raed the txet wiohtut dclftfuiiy.

Here are more words that business writers often confuse. Check your writing to be sure you don't fall into word confusion. 

When reviewing and editing customer documents and when reading online articles and posts, we often find mis-used words that result in confusion. This week's post deals with some words that we've seen used incorrectly. Have you been guilty of any of these errors?

One of the common errors we see in our customers' documents is the misuse of the singular or plural of a verb following or or nor in the subject.

When proofreading or editing documents, we often find that writers are confused about when to capitalize these terms. Here are some rules to follow.