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When the Past Tense Makes Us Tense

Today, let's weed our grammatical garden. Betty Lundy of West Point, Mississippi, wonders how to say that her son removed ...
NARRATOR: Free biscuits? Who will fall for that? When we talk about things that haven’t happened yet we call it the future tense. We often use the word ‘will’ in front of a verb. Looks like you ‘will’ ...
From “affect” and “effect,” where one has an A and one an E, to “let’s” and “lets,” where that little apostrophe makes a big difference, English is filled with pairs of similar words you’re probably ...