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Agreement

Tricky Subjects (news, scissors, -ics, titles)

Is the news singular? Are scissors always plural? The odd nouns that don't play by the rules

Roger Fielding 9 min read
Agreement

Tricky Subjects (news, scissors, -ics, titles)

The news are good looks right — learn which tricky words always stay singular

Roger Fielding 4 min read
Agreement

Notional vs Formal Concord

Grammar says "none is"; everyone you know says "none are" — which one actually wins

Roger Fielding 9 min read
Agreement

Notional vs Formal Concord

None of my friends are coming sounds right — the rule that follows meaning, not grammar

Roger Fielding 4 min read
Agreement

Advanced Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

"Everyone should send their availability" felt fine until someone asked whose "their" that even is

Roger Fielding 9 min read
Agreement

Advanced Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Everyone should bring their book looks fine — learn how pronouns should really match their owners

Roger Fielding 4 min read
Capitals

Capitalising the First Word of a Sentence

Re-reading that 4:55 Friday email, the second paragraph forgets to capitalise a sentence

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Capitals

Proper Nouns & Proper Adjectives — The Core Rule

Your essay gets a pink underline under 'romeo' — proper nouns and adjectives, capitalised for good

Roger Fielding 12 min read
Capitals

Special Capitalisation Cases: Getting "I", Acronyms, Brand Styling and Religious Terms Right

IPhone lowercases its own name, yet English never lowercases I — the quirks worth knowing

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Capitals

Capitalisation in Letters, Emails, Headings & Lists

Stuck between Dear and Hi with an empty subject line — capitalisation for emails, headings and lists, sorted

Roger Fielding 12 min read
Capitals

Big Letters, Simple Rules

When a word needs a capital, when it doesn't, and how to stop Sprinkling Them Everywhere

Roger Fielding 2 min read
Capitals

Two Rules Capitals Hang From

Two anchor rules answer most of it — everything else is just one of them stretching

Roger Fielding 3 min read