Parts of Speech

About to send an important email when the apostrophe suddenly refuses to sit where you put it

Roger Fielding 10 min read

Parts of Speech

Last weeks report, hovering over that missing apostrophe — singular, plural, and every owner in between, settled

Samantha Callahan 9 min read

Parts of Speech

Editor-in-chief or editor in chief, email or e-mail — the hyphens and spaces that keep shifting underfoot

Roger Fielding 12 min read

Parts of Speech

Sitting down to write an email and freezing on 'the meeting starting/starts' — gerunds finally made to behave

Roger Fielding 10 min read

Parts of Speech

Stuck between 'I' and 'me' before you even hit send — what pronouns are really doing

Roger Fielding 8 min read

Parts of Speech

'Sarah and I' or 'Sarah and me'? the one quick swap test that settles it for good

Roger Fielding 10 min read

Parts of Speech

Typing 'please contact myself' in a careful email — when reflexives help and when they just sound stiff

Roger Fielding 10 min read

Parts of Speech

Frozen on 'its' or 'it's' in a report to your boss — the difference, sorted for good

Roger Fielding 9 min read

Parts of Speech

Stalled on 'who' or 'whom' before forwarding an email — plus the real line between 'which' and 'that'

Roger Fielding 10 min read

Parts of Speech

A colleague flags your singular 'they' in a company email — why it's correct, and always was

Roger Fielding 9 min read

Parts of Speech

Halfway through a work email, every sentence stalls without one word doing the heavy lifting — the verb

Roger Fielding 10 min read

Parts of Speech

'Please complete and return' — the client email that's missing an object, and why that matters

Roger Fielding 9 min read