The John Larrysson List of Grammar Articles

index

• Pronouns
  
• Suffixes and Prefixes
  
• Adjectives
  
• One
  
• Prepositions
  
• Plurals
  
• Verbs & Adverbs
  
• Other Grammar topics
  

pronouns

• Who vs. Whom
  
• Why does English have who/whom?
  
• Is Whom History?
  
• 'I' or 'Me'? And other leftovers from ancient English…
  
• You Is a Flawed Pronoun
  
• The Four words for You
  
• You, the Easy Pronoun
  
• We is an incomplete pronoun
  
• Singular They
  
• Who or That
  
• Who or That for Animals
  
• Who or That for Organisations of People
  
• Whose for Objects
  
• One as a Pronoun
  

Suffixes and Prefixes

• The Prefix Jack
  
• To Play the Jack
  
• –ING Endings
  
• The Confusing Use of Ex–
  
• –ize Endings Are Not American English
  

Adjectives

• Problems Created by Post-Positive Adjectives
  
• Post-Positive Adjectives
  
• The Order of Adjectives
  
• When to Use Fewer or Less and Why the Rule Is Wrong!
  

One

• One and Oneself
  
• One as a Pronoun
  
• Stranger Uses of the Word One – Possessive & Contraction
  
• One in Fixed Idiomatic Phrases
  

Prepositions

• Between vs. Among
  
• Prepositions – in ten? at ten?
  
• Place Names (use of in & near)
  

Plurals

• Strange Plurals : Animals
  
• Strange Plurals: Foreign Words
  
• Strange Plurals: Old English Words
  
• Strange Plurals: Things That Are Naturally Plural
  

Verbs & Adverbs

• When to Use Is or Are
  
• Cannot or Can Not
  
• Two Conversations about Grammar
  
• Do Books Talk?
  
• Double Had
  
• Try and vs. Try to
  

Other Grammar Topics

• Double Negatives
  
• Ye and the Lost Letter
  
• And at the Beginning of a Sentence
  
• Countable Nouns
  
• When to use the
  
• Consistency of tense
  
• Like vs. As (1)
  
• Like vs. As (2) The Many Uses of Like
  
• Double Words
  
• Double Had
  
• The Ultimate Penultimate
  
• The Split Infinitive
  
• Passive Voice
  
• A Famous Fake Rule
  
• Using the Wrong Grammar Word
  
• Why do some people insist on obscure language rules?
  
• The Grammar of Y at the End of a Word (1 of 3) – Words of Old French Origin
  
• The Grammar of Y at the End of a Word (2 of 3) – Words of Old English Origin
  
• The Grammar of Y at the End of a Word (3 of 3) – The Exceptions & A Summary