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Thigh and I
There’s this guy I know, he’s ten feet tall, he’s got a flying machine. Where it’s not bars it’s cogs; where it’s not cogs, it’s wheels. He flies…
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About possession
It’s quite common these days for people to get confused over the apostrophe in possessive constructions. I’ve worked with style guides, written by professional editors, that insist that…
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About yoking with commas
Here is a clause that is meant to demand an Oxford comma: ” I want to eat eggs, toast and orange juice.” The reason is that pedants believe…
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Action some verbiage chaps
So there’s nothing I enjoy more than tackling pedants because English is a living, vibrant language and most of its speakers write it much more fluently than the…
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Adverbs up front
Here is another change, or reform even, of English that we are living through. You are possibly not aware of it because it is a question of punctuation…
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Get active
Among the elementary advice you’d give to someone who wished to learn to write well would be to use the active voice and not the passive. The reason…
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