Tag: Pronouns
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Parts of Speech – Part 2

The pronouns who, that, and which are often used interchangeably when it is not grammatically correct to do so. This post highlights the basic differences in usage. At a high level: To better understand the difference between that and which, we need to explain what restrictive and non-restrictive clauses are. Restrictive Clause: phrase that narrows…
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Parts of Speech – Part 1

This post provides a quick review of the basic parts of speech. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections each have their own function in a sentence and can break our writing when used incorrectly. NOUNS: A proper or common noun may be used as the subject of a sentence, the object of…
