Saturday, August 30, 2014

Weekly roundup for August 30, 2014

Here are the posts from this week to the Tatum's Tips Facebook feed, and blog.

Posts to the blog



Stories from around the Internet posted to the Facebook page



  • Ensure/Insure/Assure. On request. The short answer is "insure" is limited to the financial product we buy to limit our liability. "Assure" is to make a promise. "Ensure" is to make certain that something will happen.
    We insure cars, houses, and boats and against hail, earthquakes, and malpractice suits; we ensure that we'll post on a topic; we assure someone who was anxious about the difference between two words that there will soon be a post on the subject.
    From *Garner's Modern American Usage* (3rd ed.): "if the verb is in the active voice, a predicate beginning with 'that' should be introduced by the verb 'ensure'." p. 71 Here's Grammar Girl on the subject.

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