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The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!
Dear Sars,
My problem is my mother. We seem to have a love/hate relationship. We have never been close, as she had me when she was 15 and spent my childhood trying to pretend she didn’t …
Note: The answer to yesterday’s “you/your visiting” grammar-nundrum is found under “fused participles” in the Garner.I never would have looked there in a billion years.Thanks, AB Chao!
Sars,
I met Joe through a personal ad six weeks …
Sars! Queen of grammar!
Which is correct:
“On December 12, 1964, I was…”
or
“On December 12, 1964 I was…”
Please give references to prove the truth to the doubters.
Thanks!
Confused by Commas
Dear Get In Line,
I’ll cite sources in a sec, …
[Warning: May contain various horror movie/Stephen King book spoilers. If you’re sensitive to those, turn back now.]
My Netflix list is so crazy long right now that the software won’t let me add any more titles …
Hi Sars,
I need to know if I’m wrong or just being picky.
There seems to be a trend where the word “female” is being used in place of the word “woman,” as in: “I saw the …
Hey Sars —
About two years before I met my now-fiance, he purchased a home. To call it a fixer-upper would be an understatement — the house had not been lived in for 10 years …
Hi Sars, love your site.I have kind of an odd question for you.Back in the day I grew up on the same block as a Very Famous Author.He, like anyone who has some amount of …
“More than” vs. “over.” When would you use one or the other? I tend to use “more than” instead of “over,” e.g., “these sites have more than 1,000 ports” instead of “these sites have over …
Wing Chun: Hello?
Sarah: Hi! Um, so, are you…eating? Right now?
Wing Chun: No. Why? Who.
Sarah: Have you eaten? Recently?
Wing Chun: Well…how recently is “recently”?
Sarah: You know. Recently. Like since, say, June.
Wing Chun: This involves Michael Jackson. …
Hello, Sars!
What’s the deal
with “that that”?For example, “I don’t know that that is a reason to
break up with him.”It looks strange to me and MS Office grammar
check scolds me for repeating a word, but I …