Tag: grammar
group name: writingtips
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October 09, 2007 08:30 PM EDT --
So what if my friends call me Grammar Nazi. I'm PROUD to be PROPER!
Want a few verb teasers?
First, allow me to share two of my pet peeves.
1) When folks don't know how to use adventurous . . .
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March 04, 2007 04:33 PM EST --
I looked on the web and I couldn't find any clear answer to this question.
Is there a grammar "rule" in English for using affect or effect? When I say this word in conversation, . . .
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May 23, 2006 02:59 AM EDT --
I published this essay to another group. The owner of this one, Sandy, asked me to repost it here. Please be assured that I do not make a habit of republishing! :-)
Gathering . . .
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April 14, 2007 09:00 PM EDT --
I recently received a chatty Gather email in which a writer lamented that he had received very few comments on his recent travel article. I read the article and discovered that it had several spelling . . .
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September 21, 2007 07:39 PM EDT --
Many times I've read a comment such as, "I don't really care about punctuation, I just know if I like a story." Or, "I let others worry about punctuation; it doesn't . . .
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October 25, 2006 12:42 PM EDT --
farther / further
Farther, the comparative form of far, refers to
1) physical distance
2) physical space in actual measurements
Example:
Emily, don't walk farther down . . .
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September 18, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
Most of us are often confused about when to use an apostrophe (') and sometimes insert them when they are not needed.
Lets try to learn when and where to use apostrophe
When two words are run together . . .
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October 26, 2006 05:21 AM EDT --
I have received three requests to address the issue of the oft misused phrase, "beg the question." By coincidence, my son in law recently complained to me, bitterly, that many of his students . . .
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October 12, 2006 11:53 PM EDT --
Recently, I have had occasion to revisit an issue of grammar. It was not an issue in my mind but it arose in a discussion. I am going to try, mightily, to remain brief, but unequivocal. In short, . . .
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September 14, 2006 01:44 AM EDT --
That is a definite pronoun. It is used to denote a characteristic or identifying position that defines the subject of the sentence.
Which is an indefinite article that introduces a characteristic . . .
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October 12, 2006 02:28 PM EDT --
lose / loose
Lose, pronounced /luz/ is a verb.
Lose has three possible meanings:
to "misplace" something,
to "fail to win," or
to "be deprived of" something.
The past . . .
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June 08, 2006 02:02 PM EDT --
"You didn't dare write that!"
My students thought I was daft. They were certain I was recounting how I paved my own road to graduate school failure. The diploma is in my hands, . . .
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September 18, 2006 02:54 PM EDT --
Misuses of the Apostrophe
Do not use an apostrophe to form the plural.
WRONG: hamburger's for sale three cat's in the house
RIGHT: hamburgers for sale three cats . . .
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November 19, 2006 02:53 AM EST --
As important a part of comma use as rules for when to use it, are the rules for when not to use it. There are many sources of advice regarding this issue, some of them even good. Perhaps the most entertaining . . .
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September 19, 2006 11:05 AM EDT --
UNTIL VS TILL
Many are confused about usage of these two words too.
I only found dictionary meanings and not much other details. Please any one take up on this?
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November 29, 2006 04:59 AM EST --
The focus of this article is the semicolon, but it is impossible to have an intelligent discussion of this punctuation mark without some understanding of the other punctuations that can be used to separate . . .
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September 28, 2006 02:50 PM EDT --
Double quotation marks enclose direct speech. They too enclose words or phrases to clarify their meaning or use or to indicate that they are being used in a special way. They also set off the titles of . . .
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December 28, 2007 11:15 PM EST --
Writers are as different a lot as any other profession. We have similarities (we enjoy a good tale), but are each unique individuals.
An example: I write a novel in snippets and not in any . . .
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April 13, 2006 12:48 PM EDT --
Eats, fires and leaves.
Someone suggested my previous post to this group might have been inspired by my reading Eats, shoots and leaves, Lynne Truss' book on punctuation. Not so, I have not actually . . .
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February 28, 2008 05:37 PM EST --
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Sometimes a bit of detective work is required in conversation when two people use facial expressions, tones of voice, gestures or other body . . .
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