Grammar

Author (and perfect SAT scorer) Dr. Shaan Patel, MD, MBA, shares his top tips for getting a great score on the reading and writing portions of the digital SAT, including 10 "kiss of death" phrases and words to avoid.

Learn when to use errand vs. errant vs. arrant in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Learn when to use angel vs. angle in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples and a song from The Decemberists.

Learn when to use left over, leftover, and leftovers in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Whether writing a sentence or list of instructions, parallelism is important for clear and consistent writing. Learn how and why to apply parallelism in your own writing.

Learn when to use vain, vane, and vein in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Learn when to use peal vs. peel in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Learn tips how to write dates correctly in English, whether you're ending your sentences with the date or plopping them right into the middle, including a few examples. Plus, an explanation of "in" vs. "on" when writing out dates and abbreviating months.

Learn when to use brake vs. break in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples and the meaning of the phrase "those are the breaks."

Learn when to use waiver, waver, and wafer in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Learn when to use flair vs. flare in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

A homograph is one of two or more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. In this post, we share 30 homographs examples for writers.

Learn when to use perspective vs. prospective in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Learn when to use stalk vs. stock and stalking vs. stocking in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Learn when to use forth vs. fourth in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples.

Let's look at the differences between marshal, martial, and marital with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples of correct usages.

In this post, we define what a pronoun is, explain benefits and drawbacks of using pronouns, and share a few examples of pronouns in action.

Learn when to use faint vs. feint in your writing with Grammar Rules from the Writer's Digest editors, including a few examples. Plus, we answer whether it's "faint of heart" or "feint of heart."