The Writing Center

04/11/2022

It happens all the time—you and someone you know disagree about something more important than who has the best curry in town, and…

04/11/2022

Verbs aren’t just verbs. As you know from studying the different parts of speech, just about…

04/11/2022

Inboxes are swamped with incoming and outgoing emails throughout the day. According to Campaign Monitor, an email marketing platform, the average person sends…

04/04/2022

Many Americans who love tea would turn up their noses at the idea of adding milk to it. Brits, on the other hand,…

04/04/2022

As you develop your writing skills, it’s easy to adopt a few habits along the way. Some of these habits are helpful, like…

04/04/2022

Sometimes, writing feels like you’re climbing up a hill. A slippery, muddy hill. During a rainstorm. Even when the words are…

03/28/2022

03/28/2022

Everyone knows the problem with spell-check: your word might be spelled right, but it may be the wrong word. English is full of confusing words…

03/28/2022

At Grammarly, we think about putting words together like it’s our job, and that’s because, well, it is. So…

03/21/2022

I used to be a terrible cook. One problem was that I would get distracted and end up burning things a lot, but in such cases, should I say dinner is burned or should I say it’s burnt? Why do we have two forms of that word? The Verb: 'Burned' Versus 'Burnt' Burned and burnt ar

03/21/2022

In this dark first month of the year, it seems like a good time to talk about Janus words, also known as contronyms and auto-antonyms, because January gets its name from the two-faced Roman god named Janus as well. Words that have two opposite meanings such as “dust” (which can mean bot

03/21/2022

Every female writer picking up her pen or opening her laptop today to write—whether her métier be fact or fiction—builds upon a powerful…