A Grammar Nazi is a pedantic soul who takes pleasure in finding grammatical errors and pointing them out to people. Whether asked or not. Collectively they can be known as the Grammar Police. Grammar Nazis will know it is spelled grammar and not grammer. They will know the difference between […]

When using conditionals‏‎, it is sometimes difficult to know when to use the First Conditional and when to use the Second Conditional‏‎. This article looks at how to choose between the two types, and which is best to use. First or Second? Generally speaking, if you want to talk about […]

An Exclamation Mark or ! is a punctuation‏‎ symbol used at the end of a sentence‏‎ to denote strong feeling: surprise, anger, exuberance: I love you! Get out! I won! It is sometimes known as a bang, a screamer, a shriek, a slammer, a startler, or a pling. Some theories […]

Grammar is the way in which words come together to form sentences‏‎ (or utterances‏‎ in spoken language). It is difficult to define this word accurately because people use it in different ways. Some definitions include: the branch of linguistics‏‎ which deals with syntax‏‎ and morphology‏‎ and sometimes semantics the study […]

Emoticons are a modern form of English punctuation. Essentially they are a pictorial representation of a human face which are used to give nuance to a text. For example, I could write: See you on Thursday. In itself, this seems fairly innocuous. However, if next Thursday we plan to attend […]