June 2008 Most Popular Articles
Happy 4th of July to all the U.S. readers. Below you will find the most popular articles of the past month; check them out if you missed any.
Rebut, Refute, Deny
There’s often confusion between rebut and refute and both words may be misused when deny is most appropriate. It’s true that they all have to do with negation, but that’s where the similarity ends.
How To Write Every Day (and why you should)
If you aspire to be a writer, and read tips from well known authors, you’ll have come across the advice that you should write every day.
English Grammar 101: Verb Tense
Modern English has six tenses, each of which has a corresponding continuous tense.
The first three tenses, present, past, and future, present few problems. Only third person singular in the present tense differs in form:
Useful Stock Phrases for Your Business Emails
When I wrote a post on email etiquette, one reader, Juan, left a comment to ask for some advice (I’ve changed his punctuation a bit for clarity’s sake):
I just discovered your page and I love it. Please teach me before we sign off the mail with “warm regards” etc ,we also always using some phrasal sentences such as “please look into this matter” or “thank you in advance”, “I would be very appreciate on your help in this matter”, etc. Could you please write some more like those in different contents of mails?
Word of the Day: Apocalypse
Apocalypse [ə-pŏk'ə-lĭps'], with the definite article, means “the end of the world.” Apocalyptic writings–prophecies of the end of the world couched in symbolic language–were a popular genre with Jewish and early Christian writers between 200 B.C.E. and C.E. 150. The best known is the Revelation of St. John in the Christian New Testament.
When the Review Tops the Book
Some time ago one of our readers sent me a link to a brilliantly written book review, interestingly enough about a shockingly bad book.
The person who wrote the review is called Charles Moore. Here is a quote from it:
English Grammar 101: Verb Mood
English verbs have four moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and infinitive.
Mood is the form of the verb that shows the mode or manner in which a thought is expressed.
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