First, a distinction: whereas grammar refers to how to use words in a sentence, usage has to do with which words to use. Like our goal here at Mots Justes, the goal is to find the right words.

For example, here's a pair of words I've apparently been using wrongly my entire life: nauseated versus nauseous. To be nauseated is to suffer from nausea—in other words, to feel sick to one's stomach. To be nauseous is to induce nausea—to cause one to feel sick to one's stomach.

Therefore, you shouldn't say, "I'm nauseous"—unless what you mean is that you make other people sick! What you want to say is "I'm nauseated."

Caught in the ’Net

Although Write to Done's headline could use some copy-editing, check out "Learn from the Greats: 7 Writing Habits of Amazing Writers." (If I was going to take a stab at rewriting this hed, I might say something like, "Learn From the Pros: The Writing Habits of Seven Highly Effective Writers.")

English, Jack argues with his mother as to why anyone would bother to study grammar.

Resources

Chicago Manual of Style, The. 15^th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Fogarty, Mignon, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2008.

Hacker, Diana, The Bedford Handbook for Writers, 3^rd ed. Boston: St. Martin's Press: 1991.

Google, the biggest and best search engine in the world, today released a beta of the smallest and best browser in the world.

Safe like mozilla, fast like opera, and somehow manages to seemingly run with no consequences to your computer speed & usage.

WOW

Right?

its not all skywards, as its beta plenty of bugs. Not convinced?

READ THIS

Microsoft are shaking in their boots.

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In English, when we are ready to sleep at night we say we are "going to bed." When we are preparing to sleep, it is very common to say we are "getting ready for bed."

What time do you usually go to bed?
How long does it take you to get ready for bed?

Because of this special meaning, the prepositions can be confusing.  "In bed" means that you are under the covers and (usually) ready to sleep.  If you are not ready to go to sleep (or under the covers), we use "on the bed"

While I was in the bed, the phone rang. (NOT COMMON)

While I was in bed, the phone rang. (idiomatic usage)

The children were sick in their beds all week. (NOT COMMON)

The children were sick in bed all week. (idiomatic usage)

Many women think it is romantic to be served breakfast in their beds. (NOT COMMON)

Many women think it is romantic to be served breakfast in bed. (idiomatic usage)

I was sitting on the bed when the phone rang. (OK - literal usage)

I like to study on my bed. (OK - literal usage)

Children like to jump on their beds! (OK - literal usage)

As you can see in the examples, you should not use an article (a/an/the) or other determiners (my, your, this, that, etc.) when you use "bed" with this special meaning of sleeping (usually with the prepositions "to" or "for".  You will also notice that this usage is never plural.

However, when you use the preposition "on" it is common to used determiners and plurals.

They say they are going to limit usage to 250 Gigabytes. Fine.

This is better than having the providers pay extra in some kind of Web 2.0 tax.

Here's the article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5689480&page=1

Of course, nobody said there wouldn't be competition coming along to force them to open up again. That's how we go to the unlimited Internet to begin with.