People often e-mail Right Words with questions about grammar. Usually, we can answer them, although sometimes, we’re stretched! We write back to these people privately but we thought it might also be useful to put the answers on our site, especially as some questions pop up again and again.

If you have a question, you might like to check here first for an answer. Wherever possible, we have included with the answer a link to further information about the issue on this site.

The questions appear in italics.