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For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by clicking the following link – http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-4. If you would prefer to dive straight into note 20, then please read on… Using dashes in writing If you read yesterday’s blog, you will know that (according to The Elements of Style by Strunk and White) … Continue reading
For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by clicking the following link – http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-4. If you would prefer to dive straight into note 19, then please read on… Using dashes According to The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, “a dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, … Continue reading
For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by clicking the following link – http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-4. If you would prefer to dive straight into note 18, then please read on… Passed and Past The words passed and past sometimes cause confusion. The Little Red Writing Book by Brandon Royal explains that passed is … Continue reading
For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by clicking the following link – http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-4. If you would prefer to dive straight into note 17, then please read on… I read earlier today about the difference between saying ‘into’ and ‘in’ (and the same for ‘onto’ and ‘on’). In his book The Queen’s English, Bernard C. … Continue reading
For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by clicking the following link – http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-4. If you would prefer to dive straight into note 16, then please read on… You may have noticed that there hasn’t been a part 2 to Note 13 Inverted Commas (part1) where I blogged about when to … Continue reading
For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by clicking the following link – http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-4. If you would prefer to dive straight into note 15, then please read on… Good evening. It’s the end of the weekend for me and as usual I haven’t got all my chores done and the house … Continue reading
Good evening. It’s been two weeks since I began my writing challenge and I have learnt so much. Firstly. I would like to thank all my regular readers for the time you take to read my blogs and secondly for those who have subscribed and left comments. For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by … Continue reading
My writing challenge For the background to my writing challenge, please read my first blog by clicking the following link – http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-4. If you would prefer to dive straight into note 13, then please read on… Single and double inverted commas Inverted commas (also known as speech marks, quotation marks or quotes) are punctuation marks which … Continue reading
As mentioned in Affect and Effect (as verbs) yesterday, both affect and effect can be used as a noun or a verb and each one has one or more meaning. Yesterday I wrote about the verb form and today’s blog includes examples of where it can be used as a noun. Here goes: Where effect and affect … Continue reading
This blog is about affect and effect as verbs and tomorrow I will research affect and effect as nouns. All my research today, on working out when to use affect and effect, has led me to many lengthy definitions for each word, which made me realise why this is so difficult for people to understand. I’ll attempt … Continue reading
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