When I think of slash, I think of a metal-rock guitarist with a black hat and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth (how did it never fall out?). And as someone who loves punctuation and grammar, it says something that my first thought about a slash is Guns N’ Roses. It’s not that oftenContinue reading “Slashes”
Category Archives: Grammar
i.e. or e.g.? (They’re different!)
Sometimes we use words or phrases, especially idioms, that we don’t fully understand. We just roll with it, and no one corrects us, so we carry on. This is so true for using i.e. and e.g. in sentences. When I was teaching, I didn’t have much occasion to use either because honestly in English classContinue reading “i.e. or e.g.? (They’re different!)”