Common Errors

Its/It's, Their/There, Your/You're, Then/Than

A pink circle round "it's" changed to "its" — the four mix-ups everyone makes, sorted for good

Roger Fielding 9 min read

Common Errors

Why Do I Accidentally Write Double Negatives?

"Double negative", scrawled in the margin again — why we write them, and the register where they're fine

Roger Fielding 11 min read

Common Errors

Commas, Semicolons & Colons — Fast Triage

Little circles that aren't about spelling at all — matching every comma, semicolon and colon to its job

Roger Fielding 11 min read

Common Errors

Why Does My "Correct" Grammar Sound Stiff, Wordy, or Just... Off?

Every rule followed, every comma right, yet the sentence still reads like a 1953 memo — here's why

Roger Fielding 11 min read

Common Errors

The Grammar Myths Clinic (Split Infinitives &c.)

Your teacher circled 'to boldly go' in red — turns out that rule was never actually a rule

Roger Fielding 12 min read

Common Errors

Why Do My Tenses Keep Slipping?

That dragon story starts in the past and drifts into present tense halfway through — here's the fix

Roger Fielding 13 min read

Common Errors

Why Does My Subject Not "Match" My Verb? (Subject–Verb Agreement)

Red pen scrawls S-V AGR with zero explanation — find the phrase that's hijacking your verb

Roger Fielding 9 min read

Common Errors

Why Doesn't My Pronoun Match? (incl. Singular They)

Someone circled 'they' and wrote 'unclear' in the margin — the case for singular they, sorted

Roger Fielding 10 min read

Common Errors

Why Do My Descriptions Land on the Wrong Word?

A sentence felt perfectly sensible until someone underlined it — where descriptive words actually belong, and why it matters

Roger Fielding 9 min read