“I am the English teacher who teaches the “boring stuff”— I teach a class on grammar called Writing Skills.” — Jenny Baranick Education Copy Share Image
“Lacks commitment: I suppose I could marry Dan. Acknowledges commitment: I’m supposed to marry Dan.” — Jenny Baranick Supposed Marry Copy Share Image
“When I think about Richard Gere, I can’t help but simultaneously think about the colon.” — Jenny Baranick Colon Copy Share Image
“When it comes to matters of the comma, don’t follow your heart—follow the rules.” — Jenny Baranick Comma Copy Share Image
“Use the semicolon like you would use any powerful weapon (your best pick-up line or your most effective push-up bra): carefully and… — Jenny Baranick Semicolon Copy Share Image
“A comma splice means that a comma has been inserted between two complete sentences.” — Jenny Baranick Punctuation Copy Share Image
“Not only can rearranging our sentences to avoid ending them in prepositions sound pretentious, it’s also unnecessary. Grammar experts agree that it’s… — Jenny Baranick Language Copy Share Image
“Rule #6 – Always tell everyone what they want to hear. That nondesigner dress is absolutely divine. World peace is very important… — Jenny Baranick Fashion Copy Share Image
“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of… — Jenny Baranick Dictionaries Copy Share Image
“Like an exclamation point, the em dash may be used to provide emphasis, but the exclamation point must go at the end… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“If our writing is full of grammar and punctuation errors, even though the content may be great, it’s like wearing a beautifully… — Jenny Baranick Language Copy Share Image
“One of the most pressing questions of our time is arguably this: Does size matter? Is it about quantity or quality? Is… — Jenny Baranick Length Copy Share Image
“The semicolon, my friends, is the punctuation mark we use to join two complete sentences. When we want to separate two complete… — Jenny Baranick Punctuation Copy Share Image
“I am the English teacher who teaches the “boring stuff”— I teach a class on grammar called Writing Skills. My students think… — Jenny Baranick English teacher Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will… — Jenny Baranick Humor Copy Share Image
“We might also want to use a semicolon to hold together two sentences to avoid giving the reader too much time to… — Jenny Baranick Bank account Copy Share Image
“First impressions stick. That’s why it’s so important that we do tedious things like remember to wear deodorant, brush our teeth, and… — Jenny Baranick First impressions Copy Share Image
“For And Nor But Or Yet So And you know what to do: when you see one of these little fellows in… — Jenny Baranick Comma Copy Share Image
“Incorrect: I use to be the most popular guy in school, but now I am the Thursday night trivia king at the… — Jenny Baranick Correct Copy Share Image
“Even is such a dependable word. It means steady, unchanging. Though, on the other hand, is the opposite. It means despite the… — Jenny Baranick Despite Copy Share Image
“We use the en dash when we want to express a range of values: Goldilocks will only sleep on Egyptian cotton sheets… — Jenny Baranick Goldilocks Copy Share Image
“Guys who kiss like they’re giving CPR should have to attend kissing classes. If I take out “who kiss like they’re giving… — Jenny Baranick Kiss Like Copy Share Image
“Subject = Boat Verb = Sank Completes a thought = If you went up to someone and said, “The big boat sank,”… — Jenny Baranick Communication Copy Share Image
“In high school, I was such a slut. And I was not alone; most girls in my high school were total sluts.… — Jenny Baranick High school Copy Share Image
“The difference between lay and lie is like the difference between sadism and masochism: one means doing something to someone (or something)… — Jenny Baranick Sadism Copy Share Image
“A run-on sentence is when we fuse two or more sentences together without using any punctuation to separate them. For example: I… — Jenny Baranick Dreams Copy Share Image
“Affect: To produce a change in Effect: Something that is produced, a result or consequence” — Jenny Baranick Affect Copy Share Image
“(Lay) Yesterday, he laid the leather whip down by the handcuffs. (Lie) Five minutes ago, she told him to lay down on… — Jenny Baranick Bark Like Copy Share Image
“Forget about how you feel about the comma. I know it’s small and cute and curvy, but we’ve got to harden our… — Jenny Baranick Small And Cute Copy Share Image
“Possession is tricky. It brings up issues of jealousy, codependence, self-esteem, and incorrect apostrophe placement.” — Jenny Baranick Jealousy Copy Share Image
“But spell check and grammar check are like vodka: they are definitely helpful but shouldn’t be solely relied on to solve our… — Jenny Baranick Language Copy Share Image
“If you want to see a truly long sentence, pick up a copy of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, which reportedly contains a… — Jenny Baranick Language Copy Share Image
“So we’re seemingly in quite a pickle. Sometimes a period provides too much pause between these two sentences, but the comma doesn’t… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, people meet our writing before they meet us; our writing is our first impression.People read our résumés, cover letters, proposals, and… — Jenny Baranick First impression Copy Share Image
“For example, in English we would write Dear Staff, I would like to recognize Sarah’s outstanding performance. In Slang we would write… — Jenny Baranick Outstanding performance Copy Share Image
“when certain married words neglect to wear their apostrophes, they might be mistaken for their single friends: The identity of he’ll just… — Jenny Baranick Friendship Copy Share Image
“The closest we can get to set hyphen rules are that the prefixes ex, self, and all always require hyphens while adverbs… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
