Agreement

Notional vs Formal Concord

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

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Advanced Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

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

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Advanced Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

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

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Capitalising the First Word of a Sentence

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

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Proper Nouns & Proper Adjectives — The Core Rule

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

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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

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Capitalisation in Letters, Emails, Headings & Lists

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

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Two Rules Capitals Hang From

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

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Capitalisation — Complete Map

Every article in the Capitals pillar, mapped. Start with the opener below.

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Spelling Systems — UK vs US at a Glance

Colour or color, organise or organize — the six real splits between UK and US spelling

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Commonly Confused Words — Start Here

Affect or effect, fewer or less, their or there — one map for every mix-up you keep making

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Affect or Effect?

The war affected daily life, or did it effect a change — the verb-noun split, finally clear

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