Two Wrong Words
—when they are used together! Here’s the caption:
Houston is seen as an attractive location for solar manufacturing plants due to the high amount of new solar installations in the state and the proximity to the Port of Houston.
And here’s the picture:
Use either “high number” or “huge amount.” We use “high” when we’re counting with numbers, and “huge” with either numbers or things we’re measuring.
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Okay, a Didactic Post Today
A lesson about compound adjectives. Last speech in the last two panels: When two words together refer to a third word, alwayse hyphenate the two words! So it should be “follow-up question.” Unless one of the two words is an adverb, such as “very.” Adverbs can directly modify adjectives, so they don’t need the hyphen. […]
I’ve Never Heard this Pronounced like it’s Spelled
How do you pronunce this? Here’s the discussion: Do you know of anyone whos says “sherbet” instead of “sherbert”?
A Punctuation Joke
I didn’t read this carefully the first time, so it took me a moment to get the joke. Do you? “Eclipse” does look rather like “ellipsis.” Ellipsis is the name of those three dots in text to represent something left out; it looks like this: … It’s a geek joke, I guess.
A Correct “Only”
Usually I post about mistakes, but the mistake of putting “only” in the wrong place is so common, I’m posting an example of it being used correctly! In the only speech in the comic: People often say “…only covers your parking.” Wrong! Always put “only” directly in front of the word it refers to, not […]
