Dear Sars,
I have questions that I’ve never seen addressed anywhere.My family and friends
can’t answer them — they have no experience with this. Perhaps you can help.
Here’s my situation:
I’m an artist who pays the bills by …

Speaking as a pre-op transman, I’d say just ask her how she would prefer to
be addressed.The conversation could go a little like this: “Hey, I’m not
sure how you want to be addressed and I want …

Sarah,
Your advice sucks! He loves me and I really love him.
We got engaged in September; are getting married in May 2007.
Because we were engaged, Joe called his cousin and asked if I could
come, and he …

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, …

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 …