To some people’s ears, the sentence: “Terry is going shopping with June and I” sounds perfectly reasonable and correct. To those same people, the statement: “Terry is going shopping with June and me” might well sound rather colloquial and improper.

In fact, the latter version is grammatically correct. A simple set of guidelines helps explain. (more…)

Our thanks to Doug Oliver and John Duncan from Cessna for this! (more…)

You may have heard people talking about “grocers’ apostrophes”. You will almost certainly have seen many of them. You may not quite know what they are. (more…)

Of all the problems in punctuation, perhaps the most common everyday confusion arises in knowing when to write “it’s”, with an apostrophe, and when to write “its”, without one. (more…)

There are really no rules in punctuation, only conventions. And conventions, by definition, vary between cultures and ages. (more…)