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Oh boy! I started reading Robert Silverberg's Up the Line yesterday. While I'm only about 35 pages into the book, so far, I love it. I've only read 2 other books by Silverberg, Dy...
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There aren't big enough capital letters to denote how much I LOVE Anne R. Allen. This is an older article, but it illustrates so well her basic common sense and clear explanatory power. She walks you though the past tenses in English, explaining how using "to be" affects meaning. I especially like this article (among...
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I've weighed in on this very issue of grammar rules you may not really need! And here, for example. Many so-called rules come from dubious historical sources and, in use in context, are judgment calls. English isn't Latin. It can't be like Latin. Thanks, Jean Cogdell, for sharing and reminding us to make "good" use...
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Following up on an earlier post on hyphens from Connie J. Jasperson, here's a handy discussion of the different uses of dashes and hyphens. I'd like to add that, if you're writing on a Mac, you can create an em dash by typing Space/Option/Hyphen. My new wireless keyboard, a Microsoft product, allows for most Mac...
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