Bryan A. Garner
Bryan A. Garner, President of LawProse Inc., is the most prolific CLE
presenter in the U.S., having trained more than 150,000 lawyers and
judges. His book — most prominently Black’s Law Dictionary and
Garner’s Modern American Usage — have been cited as authority by every
state and federal appellate court, including the highest. For more
about him, go to www.lawprose.org.
To follow him on Twitter: @bryanagarner.
Posts by Bryan A. Garner
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Career Center, Career Files, LawProse, LawyersLawProse Lesson #127: Wrongly suppressed that
Bryan Garner of LawProse offers tips on when and when not to suppress "that" in a sentence. -
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LawProse Lesson #126: That vs. which
Bryan A. Garner of LawProse explores how to choose between that and which as relative pronouns. 
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LawProse Lesson #124: Is person that (as opposed to who) proper?
Bryan Garner of LawProse answers the question: Is it permissible to say "people that," or must you always say "people who"?
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LawProse Lesson #123: Forego vs. forgo
Bryan Garner of LawProse explains the proper use of the often-confused forego and forgo. -
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LawProse Lesson #122: It’s vs. its
Bryan Garner of LawProse explains the difference between the often confused "it's" and "its." -
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LawProse Lesson #121: What’s the difference between guarantee and guaranty?
Bryan A. Garner of LawProse explains the difference between the terms "guarantee" and "guaranty." -
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LawProse Lesson #119: Is it better to say May 29, 2013, or May 29th, 2013?
Bryan A. Garner of LawProse explores the proper way to write dates. -
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LawProse Lesson #117: What’s the plural of subpoena duces tecum?
Bryan A. Garner of LawProse answers the question: What’s the plural of subpoena duces tecum? 
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LawProse Lesson #116: What's the plural form of attorney general? And what is the plural possessive?
Bryan A. Garner of LawProse provides the proper plural form of "attorney general" as well as the plural possessive. -
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LawProse Lesson #115: Is it attorney’s fees or attorneys’ fees?
Bryan Garner answers the question: Is it "attorney’s fees" or "attorneys’ fees"? -
Career Center, Career Files, LawProse, LawyersLawProse Lesson #114: Is it better to say a friend of John’s or a friend of John?
Is it better to say a friend of John’s or a friend of John? A lesson in double possessives. -
Career Center, Career Files, LawProse, LawyersLawProse Lesson #113: How do you form a possessive with a name that itself ends with a possessive -’s, as with McDonald’s?
It’s common for a business’s name to be a proper single name in possessive form, as with McDonald’s, T.G.I. Friday’s, or Lloyd’s of London. Such names function as ordinary proper nouns despite their possessive appearance—that is, the -’s is part of the noun itself and doesn’t signify possession. So technically speaking, the correct possessive would […] -
Career Center, Career Files, LawProse, LawyersLawProse Lesson #112: What are the rules for possessives with gerunds, or preventing fused participles?
As you doubtless know, verbs have two forms we call participles. The past participle usually ends in -ed. (Exceptions occur with irregular verbs, such as swim>swam>swum –the last being the past participle.) The verb form ending in -ing is called the present participle, and its use brings up a tricky grammatical topic concerning when to […]
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LawProse Lesson #111: Why Do Plural Possessives Cause So Much Trouble?
Much confusion surrounds plural possessives. Is it as simple as adding an apostrophe to the final -s? What if the plural noun doesn’t end in -s? How do you form a possessive for units of time? What about joint possessives? The list goes on. This confusion became apparent when our last LawProse Lesson, on the […] -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, LawProse, Pre-LawApostrophes: LawProse Lesson #110
What are the most common misuses of apostrophes? The apostrophe does three things. Its first two uses are straightforward: • To indicate a possessive {the plaintiff’s brief}. • To mark the omission of one or more characters, especially in a contraction, as with can’t for cannot, or ’99 for 1999. The third use is a […]
