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Adjectives are tricky little buggers. While usually limited to modifying nouns and pronouns, they sometimes modify other adjectives as part of compound adjectives. These compounds should be hyphenated when they appear before the noun or pronoun they modify, and unhyphenated when they appear after it. For example:
John is a second-rate dancer.
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Appositives are nouns or noun phrases that represent the same thing and sit next to each other in a sentence. For example,
My wife, Jenny, should know how lucky she is to be married to me.
Here, My wife and Jenny are the same person; Jenny serves to explain my wife.
Apposition is a technical concept. In fact, [...]

Who is a subject; it does things. Whom is an object; things are done to it.

We often discuss grammar rules here on Pro Writing Tips; often, these reviews lead to conversations with highly intelligent readers about the validity of said rules. Thus far, we’ve had the good luck of keeping these debates civil. That being said, it’s time we explained what grammar rules are and how we approach them.

I love language for several reasons: double entendres, its delicate and potentially brutal beauty, its occasional dive into the abyss of the ineffable, and its unconscious power.

Comprise means to contain. Compose means to make up.

There are two main forms of title capitalization: sentence case and title case

Less is used with mass nouns and fewer with count nouns. Less is also used with singular nouns.

Farther is used for literal distances and further for metaphorical ones and in the sense of “more.”

The pronoun “I” is subjective, meaning it is always used as the subject of the sentence or clause. The pronoun “me” is objective; it is used to receive action from the subject or to be the object of a preposition.