Foundations

Grammar Learning Roadmap (US)

Staring at a blank Google Doc for an English assignment — building sentences that finally click

Samantha Callahan 16 min read Common Errors

Uneven Lists & Unfinished Comparisons

Your tidy list of likes trailing into a comparison that never finishes — here's the fix

Roger Fielding 10 min read Common Errors

Why Doesn't My Reader Know What "It" or "This" Is Pointing To? (Vague Pronoun Reference)

Someone replies "sorry, which one?" to your Friday email — making "it" and "this" point somewhere clear

Roger Fielding 9 min read Common Errors

Why Do I Keep Getting "A / An / The" Wrong? (Article Headaches)

That mark circling "the" or "a" on your essay — the three-question check that ends the guessing

Roger Fielding 10 min read Common Errors

Why Does My Preposition Feel Wrong?

The sentence reads fine yet something itches — the fixed preposition pairing your ear already half-knows

Roger Fielding 10 min read Common Errors

Some/Any/Much/Many/Fewer/Less

Red pen round "less" when you meant "fewer" — the busy pairs finally sorted for good

Roger Fielding 12 min read 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