Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Alright, last but not least this morning here is a worksheet on the proper use of the locutions me either and me neither. There are rules for this, but I doubt they are as vital to our students’ ability to write well as other things you’ll find on this blog under the Common Errors in English Usage header.

This is full-page worksheet with reading of reading of two sentences and two short reading prompts. Perhaps I misspoke above: this may be the least of the six posts published today.

And please don’t forget that Professor Paul Brians, the author of Common Errors in English Usage, allows access to the book at his web page at Washington State University.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Because I find it impossible not to do so, I must again (as I will in all of these posts) credit and thank the erudite and generous Paul Brians: erudite because, well, buy his book; generous because he makes his book, Common Errors in English Usage, from which the attached document is adapted, available at his Washington State University webpage.

Here is a worksheet on the use of the noun mass and adjective massive. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and ten modified cloze exercises. This is, therefore, relatively heavily supported. Since it is in Microsoft Word, you can modify it as you wish or for your students needs.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.