Field Notes

uk-us

Foundations

UK vs US English — An Overview

Colour or color? one client email, one tiny hesitation — the differences that actually trip people up

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Foundations

UK vs US English — An Overview

Type "colour" and your screen fights back with a red line — here's why two Englishes exist

Roger Fielding 9 min read
Foundations

How to Study Grammar Effectively

That vague plan to "sort out my grammar" finally becomes a routine you'll actually keep

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Foundations

How to Study Grammar Effectively

Ten minutes into "revising grammar" and already staring at the wall — a method that works

Roger Fielding 10 min read
Common Errors

Why Do I Get Marked for "Me and Him Went" or "Between You and I"? (Pronoun Case)

Marked down for "me and him went" or "between you and I" — the fix that finally sticks

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Common Errors

Affect/Effect, Accept/Except, Principle/Principal

Circle after circle round "affect", or maybe "effect" — the three pairs that trip everyone up

Roger Fielding 9 min read
Common Errors

Fragments, Run-Ons & Comma Splices

Half a sentence circled in red, or a colleague's report missing every full stop — three fast fixes

Roger Fielding 11 min read
Common Errors

The Top 20 Common Errors Checklist

Just a quiet feeling something's off, no lecture wanted — twenty fixes worth knowing, no fluff attached

Roger Fielding 3 min read
Common Errors

Punctuation, Style & Myths — Which Problem?

Squiggle from the checker, and no clue if it's punctuation, style, or a myth — find your problem

Roger Fielding 2 min read
Common Errors

Sentence-Level Trouble — Which Problem?

You've read the sentence back three times and it still doesn't sit right — find what's actually wrong

Roger Fielding 2 min read
Common Errors

Word-Level Trouble — Which Problem?

The sentence shape is fine, the full stops sit right, yet one word keeps snagging — track it down

Roger Fielding 2 min read
Advanced

Topic, Comment & Given vs New

One sentence comes back circled with a single word in the margin — awkward — and you can't see why

Roger Fielding 12 min read