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Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Bad or Badly
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "bad" and "badly" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
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Grammarly Blog: End of Sentence Punctuation
This page discusses end of sentence punctuation with links to periods, exclamation marks, and question marks.
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Grammarly Blog: Types of Quotes
Notes and examples explaining different types of quotes including: direct, indirect, short, long, and numbers.
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Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Family Relationships (Used as Proper Names)
This page explains that family relationships such as Mom, Dad, Uncle, and Aunt are capitalized if they are used as names, but are not capitalized if used as common nouns such as my mom, his dad, etc. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
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Grammarly Blog: Possessive Nouns
An explanation with examples of possessive nouns and their use of apostrophe.
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Grammarly Blog: Misuse of Like and As
An explanation with examples of using the words "like" and "as" correctly in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: Sentence Emphasis
An explanation and examples of various techniques that can be used in order to emphasize important sentences within a text.
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Grammarly Blog: Negatives
An explanation and examples of negative words and how they affect a sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: When Should I Spell Out Numbers?
This page focuses on when to write figures and numbers in writing; it provides the rules for both general writing and for technical, scientific, and complex writing. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Past Perfect Continuous (Past Perfect Progressive) Tense
An explanation with examples of past perfect progressive verb tense in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: Countable and Uncountable Nouns
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference between countable and uncountable nouns. Examples of countable and uncountable nouns are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Countable and Uncountable Nouns With Adjectives
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between countable and uncountable nouns in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
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Grammarly Blog: Conditional Sentences. Main Clause: Will, if Clause: Will
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the topic of conditional sentences. In this resource, a main clause with the word "will" and a dependent clause with a future tense verb, along with the word "if" as a subordinate conjunction,...
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Grammarly Blog: Compound Words
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to interpret the meanings of compound words and how to use them correctly in writing. Examples are provided with different types of compound words: open compound words,...
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Grammarly Blog: Closed Compound Words
This page explains closed compound words, one word compounds formed by two words, and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Names Ships and Trains
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing the names of spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains.
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Grammarly Blog: Using the Future Continuous Tense
This page explains what future continuous (progressive) tense means and how it is formed and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: What Is a Generic Noun?
This page discusses generic nouns, non-specific nouns such as in "a gang of boys," as compared to collective nouns such as "a pride of lions." Several examples of generic noun usage are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Uses of Verbs
This page focuses on verbs including definitions, action and non-action verbs, verb tenses, and verb moods with examples for all of the above.
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Grammarly Blog: Past Continuous (Past Progressive) Tense
An explanation with examples of past progressive verb tense in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: Linking Verbs
An explanation and examples of linking verbs and how they are used correctly in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: Possessive Case of Nouns: Rules and Examples
This page expains the rules for forming possessive nouns and provides examples.