Which and that mean different things in relative clauses. Here's a safe way to differentiate between them. (I'm telling you the U.S. grammar rule: easy to remember, easy to use.) Use that when you want to say, 'I mean the...
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Struggling with WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Guidelines for content authors
A Contented course on WCAG 2.0 for content authors looked like a piece of cake at first—after all, the information is all readily available in 159,800 easy words. Why would that prove difficult? We believe there's a need for a...
Writing tip: Beware the floating starter phrase
Sometimes you'll start a sentence with a descriptive phrase, for example: Sprinkled with chives, [...] Smiling broadly, [...] . What comes after the starter phrase and the comma? Make sure it's the same thing that the phrase describes: Sprinkled with...
E-government web content problems—in Arabic
E-government web content problems in Arab nations? Yes, there's quite an overlap with what we see in English language government web content! In Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), one of the United Arab Emirates, Basem A. Shahin is fully involved in...
Writing tip: Association apostrophes are optional with plurals
Sometimes an apostrophe shows association rather than possession: a week's pay, Christchurch Girls' High School. Strange to say, in such cases, you always need an apostrophe when the associated word is singular (a summer's day), but an apostrophe is optional...