Ready? Brain engaged? 🧠 Let’s go: Whom is used as the OBJECT of the sentence (both directly and indirectly). Think of ‘whom’ as: me,...

I’ll do it in two parts to give your head time to absorb it all 🤯 📉 Apparently, over the last 200 years, the pronoun ‘whom’ has been on...

✒Who would like another top tip? ✒ Let’s go…….. What is the difference between practice and practise? 🤔 These two often trip people up,...

OK so this is my last one on apostrophes for now and it’s quite a bossy one: NEVER USE AN APOSTROPHE TO MAKE A PLURAL. ❌ EVER. NEVER...

The other job an apostrophe has is to show that a thing belongs to someone or something: Ferdinand’s brain fell out. 🧠 For most nouns...

Apostrophes (part 1 😉 ) Where to begin with that teeny, tiny, little dangly punctuation mark? They have two main uses: ✅ To indicate...

In their simplest form: Affect (verb) means to produce a change or influence something Effect (noun) indicates an event whereby a change...

As part of my admin role, I had to format some press releases but noticed that there were a few minor slips in the copy. Checking with my...

I have always had a sense of the injustices in the world, but it was whilst I was in London, surrounded by a melting pot of cultures and...

So, now I’ve told you that proofreading is more than reading, I bet you’re all wondering what makes me think that I’m qualified to give...

"But it's just reading isn't it?" Sure, reading is part of it. However, if it was 'just reading' then I may as well have not bothered...

I always remember the day I was taught to use 'I' and 'me' correctly. I was 6 years old and school had been cancelled because of the deep...