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Category: Grammar

March 24, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Language / Words

Typos and other reasons to double check everything

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

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August 24, 2018 Did You Know ? / Grammar / Words / Writing

Unwritten Rules of English Grammar: ‘Tock-tick’, ‘Dong-ding’, ‘Kong-King’

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

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January 9, 2018 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Writing

Choosing the Right Point of View for Your Story

Point of View The Narrator’s personality and perspective helps shape the reader’s perspective, and how the story unfolds. The reader

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May 25, 2016 Grammar / Word(Less) Wednesday

Word(Less) Wednesday: Affect vs. Effect

May 20, 2016 Friday Fun / Grammar / YouTube

Friday Fun: Word Crimes (video) by Weird Al

This is one of my favorite Weird Al parodies. Hope you enjoy the Friday Fun!

April 25, 2016 Grammar / Language

A Murder of Crows, and other collective nouns for animal groups

Collective nouns are names used to represent a group of  people, animals, or things. All animals collect into groups at

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