Guides, comparisons, and tips on writing better with AI.
A close look at what makes 'up' in 'look it up' a particle rather than a preposition, how separable and inseparable phrasal verbs behave differently, and where discourse words and the infinitive marker 'to' fit into the picture.
Read more →Every piece of writing carries an implicit register, and picking the wrong one is often what makes prose feel off even when the grammar is flawless. Here's how to tell formal, informal, colloquial, and slang apart and choose on purpose.
Read more →Passive voice only turns into a real problem in a few specific situations — hiding who did something, padding a sentence with dead weight, or piling up across a whole document. Here's how to spot those cases and tell them apart from the times passive is actually the better choice.
Read more →A no-fluff look at how active and passive sentences are actually built, a quick test for spotting passive voice on sight, and the exact steps to flip one into the other.
Read more →Spell-check flags typos, not sentence logic. Here's how to catch subject-verb agreement slips, misplaced modifiers, and faulty parallelism before they undercut a draft.
Read more →Spotless sentences can make readers and detection tools suspicious instead of impressed. Here's the logic behind that reaction and how to stay correct without sounding manufactured.
Read more →A comma splice slips in whenever two complete sentences get stitched together with nothing but a comma. Here's a fast way to catch one in your own writing and three dependable fixes for each case.
Read more →A working reference to periods, commas, semicolons, quotation marks, colons, em dashes, and the Oxford comma—what each mark does and where writers actually get them wrong.
Read more →Most sentence rewrites fail because nobody named the actual problem first. Here's a four-technique method that starts with diagnosis and ends with a sentence that works.
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