The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

"The period outside the quotation marks is not a copy error."

http://www.slate.com/id/2293056/

""Tales of the City" and "Out in the Silence" are units—consisting of the words and the quotation marks. Insinuating a period or comma within the unit alters it in a rather underhanded manner. American style is inconsistent, moreover, because when it comes to other punctuation marks—semicolons, colons, exclamation points, question marks, dashes—we follow British/logical protocol. Dean Hamer would pass muster in any U.S. newspaper or magazine, for example, if he were to write: I am a big fan of "Tales of the City"; did anyone else see "Ask Not"?"

Horrible Homonyms: What Your Spell Checker Won't Tell You

"Homonyms are devilish things.  They are, of course, words that sound alike—and may even be spelled alike—but have totally different meanings.

For a writer, they can be like poisonous vipers.  Misuse of a homonym can ruin an otherwise literate document.  A reader, noticing homonym errors, may simply stop reading.  Whether in business documents, fiction or personal correspondence, a poorly chosen word—quite frequently a homonym—can be deadly."


http://www.proofreadnow.com/blog/bid/34601/Horrible-Homonyms-What-Your-Spell-Checker-Won-t-Tell-You

What is "Begging the Question?"

""Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place."


http://begthequestion.info/

The Apostrophe Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2aSz9Ficw

Parts of Speech

"Parts of speech" are the basic types of words that English has. Most grammar books say that there are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections. We will add one more type: articles.

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/parts.htm