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I am doing a five-hour English review on February 7 and 8. This course is designed for those taking certification exams but is open to anyone who wants to improve English skills. We will cover gram...

When the grammar in a sentence calls for a noun clause -- e.g., direct object, object of the infinitive, object of the preposition -- the clause has to begin with whether, not if. ...I don't know ...

Someone on FB asked about these. This is from my new book that is coming out this fall: Word Pares, Pears, Pairs. It will be some 3,000 pairs defined with examples. passed Past tense and past par...

I want to get some terminology straight. I often see posts on Facebook that use the terms phrase and clause -- incorrectly. It is important to recognize the difference because whether something is ...

As I launch this blog, Margie Holds Court, it is my hope that it will be a place where we can share our love of this language. As I approach the winding down of my teaching career -- I started as ...