My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?)

Capital letters are sometimes referred to as ‘upper case’. This is because manual typesetters kept these letters in the upper drawers of a desk – the upper type case. More frequently used letters were stored on a lower shelf, thus ‘lower case’ letters.

Knowing the rules – and breaking them because you feel like it, not because you don’t know any better – will make you a more confident, creative and entertaining writer and speaker.

Pictures or meat are hung; criminals used to be hanged.

‘80 per cent of married men cheat in America…’
The rest cheat in Europe.

Every name is called a NOUN,
As field and fountain, street and town;
In place of noun the PRONOUN stands
As he and she can clap their hands;
The ADJECTIVE describes a thing,
As magic wand and bridal ring;
The VERB means action, something done -
To read, to write, to jump, to run;
How things are done, the ADVERBS tell,
As quickly, slowly, badly, well;
The PREPOSITION shows relation,
As in the street, or at the station;
CONJUNCTIONS join, in many ways,
Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase;
The INTERJECTION cries out, ‘Hark!
I need an exclamation mark!’
Through poetry, we learn how each
of these make up THE PARTS OF SPEECH.

You may continually receive unwanted telephone calls from telesales people. However, if this were happening continuously, you would never be able to put the phone down.

avoid clichés like the plague

noun has a c and the verb has an s.

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same or differently.

eye rhymes, which are words that look alike and perhaps used to rhyme but which, due to shifts in pronunciation, no longer do.