“The cake that they served at the party was chocolate.” “The cake, which they served at the party, was chocolate.” ...

“Maybe the meeting will be cancelled.” “The meeting may be cancelled.” Both sentences are correct — but the two words ...

Your checkout screen says “the amount of items in your cart,” and something in your grammar brain flinches. Should it ...

“The sun raised this morning” — you know it’s wrong, but your tongue wrote it anyway. Rise and raise are ...

“The committee is comprised of five members.” Say it at a grammar-sensitive dinner party and someone will correct you. Merriam-Webster ...

Picture two fuel cans on a garage shelf. One is stamped FLAMMABLE; the other, INFLAMMABLE. Logic says they must be ...

“A fortuitous meeting.” “A fortunate meeting.” Both sound right, both describe a pleasant accident — and yet usage commentators have ...

“We gave the new designer free reign over the whole campaign.” It sounds majestic — a designer crowned, ruling the ...

“The investigators honed in on the suspect.” You’ve probably read that sentence a dozen times — in newspapers, novels, even ...

Wary and weary look almost identical, sound almost identical, and are both adjectives — so it’s no surprise that writers ...