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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 30, then please read on… Interrupting subject and verb (or the flow of the main clause) According to William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White in The Elements of Style, “the … 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 28, then please read on… Capital Letters Today I am going to blog about the use of capital letters. They are used for many reasons including making things easier … 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 27, then please read on… Italics (or cursive script) Italics are used for emphasis or to make things distinct from the descriptive text (as in this sentence). Some writers also choose bold or … 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 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 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
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
The title starts with ‘a little bit…’ because we’ve all been to A&E this evening; my daughter trod on a dead hedgehog and we thought she had a bit of it in her foot. Fortunately, on closer examination of her foot by the hospital doctor, we were told that she was fine; however, the rest … Continue reading
Main types of questions According to the Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation, there are 3 main types of questions: the yes or no question; the either/or question, and the open question. They all require question marks at the end of the sentence instead of a full stop. 1. Do you want some milk? (A … Continue reading
According to John Seely in the ‘Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation’, there are two purposes of an apostrophe. Firstly “to show that one or more letters have been missed out” e.g. she’s (she has) and secondly “to show possession” e.g. the man’s car. Apparently it’s common that errors are made when using this punctuation … Continue reading
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