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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 21, then please read on… Definitions of these two groups of nouns A concrete noun is a person, place or thing and according John Seely in Oxford A-Z of … 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
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
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
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 10, then read on… What’s the rhyme? I have always thought that the rhyme was i before e except after c, but according to Bernard … 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 9, then read on… ‘I’ and ‘me’ Today I have been reading up on the use of the personal pronouns ‘I’ and ‘me’ and … Continue reading
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