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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
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
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
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 7, then read on… Writing is not just about letters and words How are you today? I’ve had a great day with the family, … 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
When writing a list in one continuous piece of writing rather than a list of bullet points, there are a few rules to consider. The first rule is the punctuation you are going to use to introduce the list, and the second is the punctuation in the list itself. There are also a few guidelines as to … 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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