Why are many English contractions considered okay to use in contraction-form, but believed to "sound wrong" when used individually?
41962
Why do not we ask negative questions without a contraction on the not after the verb?
118814
Is it acceptable to edit (correct) grammar or spelling?
3454
Why do some words use duplicate letters seemingly without reason?
104918
"off colour" and "out of sorts" in British English
120289
When dependent clauses require commas, when do they allow them, and when are they definitely incorrect?
157879
A tendency to use "a" in place of "an" in American English
56173
Why does \usepackage[british]{babel} hyphenate the word "alternate" incorrectly?
47279
How to choose a proper contraction "it's not" versus "it isn't"?
52159
When should I not use a ligature in English typesetting?
95827
Why do we use "dried up" instead of just "dried"?
74494
Proper to add tense to acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms
131301
Is there a term/word for using an incorrect homophone
145704
Incorrect grammar versus different dialects
7538
Do contractions (e.g. "don't") and full phrases (e.g. "do not") have the same meaning?
14397
Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
2338
Using contracted forms ("don't", "let's") in a formal text
25758
Contractions in odd Places