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The Verb System

Mood & Modality — Map

Lost between "mood" and "modality" in someone else's lesson plan — a map to where each idea actually lives

Roger Fielding 3 min read
Capitals

Names of People, Places, Organisations & Brands

A wobbly 4:55 email drops a capital from a company name — how names actually work

Roger Fielding 14 min read
Capitals

Capital When Specific (Titles, Directions, Sun/Moon/Earth)

A red line under 'Mum' in a history essay — when family terms and titles need a capital

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Capitals

Title Case or Sentence Case? Titles & Headlines

You've finished the report and now you're stuck: capitalise every word, or just the first

Roger Fielding 12 min read
Capitals

Capitals After Colons, in Quotations & Around Punctuation

A colon, then a capital or lowercase letter — the rule that actually holds

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Capitals

The Trap of Over-Capitalisation

That Friday email where every Department and Team suddenly needs a capital letter — when to stop

Roger Fielding 12 min read
Spelling

The -our Family: Colour, Favour, Honour (UK)

Write color in a UK essay and it comes back circled red — the -our family, sorted

Roger Fielding 8 min read
Spelling

The -or Family: Color, Favor, Honor (US)

Your character does her best friend a favor — or is it favour? — the US -or family

Samantha Callahan 9 min read
Spelling

Colour or Color? UK vs US

One email to London, another to Chicago, and suddenly colour and color both look wrong

Roger Fielding 4 min read