This section deals with questions around grammar and word usage that challenge editors and writers. The answers are often more a matter of opinion than rules, and the context of the writing needs to be taken into account in the final decision about which form to use.

The following topics and questions are covered:

• A or an
• Agreement of subject and verb
• Because and due to
• Between and among
• Commas and adjectives
• Dangling modifiers
• Ending sentences with a preposition
• Fewer and less
• Future time
• Hopefully and similar sentence adverbs
• Making comparisons
• Nominalising verbs
• Of for have
• Sentence fragments
• Since and because
• Splitting infinitives
• Starting sentences with and, but, however or because
• That and which
• They as a singular pronoun
• This and that
• Unique
• Verbing nouns
• Who and whom

See also Terms to watch out for.