Ellen is at the Grammar Table

@GrammarTable

Grammar advice stand proprietor appearing in the grammar road trip docu-comedy Rebel with a Clause (rebelwithaclause.com) and disappearing from X

New York, NY bsky.app/profile/gramma… Joined September 2018

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Ellen is at the Grammar Table @GrammarTable May 18

I'm shifting over to the blue space, link in bio, it's past time to give up on this platform, I will miss you, committing run-ons in my sorrow over losing the pre-X fun, which I enjoyed tremendously, I thank you for the good times, the wit, the sassiness, the friendliness.

Ellen is at the Grammar Table @GrammarTable May 17

Which would you say?

He _____ (sneaked, snuck) into my library and stole my illustrated edition of The Elements of Style.

sneaked 3
snuck 9
I could do either 1
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Ellen is at the Grammar Table @GrammarTable Apr 22

Do you want to capitalize the "the" in the sentence below? (Please set aside any italics issues for now.)

That's the New York Times article I was telling you about.

yes
no 5
depends (on what?) 1
sth else / answers 1

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Ellen is at the Grammar Table @GrammarTable Apr 15

Would you add a comma after "wrote" in the sentence below?

It was Mark Twain who wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice."

yes 40
no 32
it depends (on what?) 3
sth else / see answers 1

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Ellen is at the Grammar Table @GrammarTable Apr 7

"Which is yours?" is fine. So is "Which are yours?" Both work depending on the context, so "can" is the answer here.

Ellen is at the Grammar Table @GrammarTable Apr 6

The word “which” ______ (must, can, can’t) be used with a singular verb.
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