Style

Nominalisation: When Verbs-Turned-Nouns Help (and Bury)

Two sentences, same idea, one buries it — spotting when a noun swallows a verb

Roger Fielding 9 min read Style

Professional Writing: Emails, Reports & Workplace Tone

It's 4:52 on a Friday and that email won't write itself — getting the tone right

Roger Fielding 13 min read Style

Clarity & Concision: More With Fewer Words

You've read your own draft back and it just sags — trimming until it holds

Roger Fielding 12 min read Style

Cutting Wordiness & Redundancy: Edit Like You Mean It

"It is very important to note that" — the six words your sentence doesn't need

Roger Fielding 10 min read Style

Avoiding Ambiguity: Making Sure They Get What You Mean

"I only told Mum yesterday" lands wrong — fixing sentences that mean two things at once

Roger Fielding 10 min read Style

Singular "They": Clear, Correct and Respectful

A student left their bag behind — whose "their" is it, and is it even wrong

Roger Fielding 10 min read Style

Gender-Neutral Job Titles & Roles

"The firemen rushed in" — why that word snags, and what actually replaces it

Roger Fielding 9 min read Style

Disability Language: Person-First, Identity-First

"A person with autism" or "an autistic person" — the difference, and who decides

Roger Fielding 12 min read Style

Avoiding Stereotypes & Loaded Labels

"The old man was surprisingly sharp" — unpicking the label your sentence didn't mean to make

Roger Fielding 12 min read The Verb System

The Verb Control Panel

Start here for a map of the door knobs English hands you — and which room to open next

Roger Fielding 13 min read The Verb System

The Verb System — Complete Guide

Every article in the The Verb System pillar, mapped. Start with the opener below.

Roger Fielding 1 min read Common Errors

The Walk-In Clinic

Why that red mark is a symptom, not a failing — and here's the map to your fix

Roger Fielding 6 min read