Grammar Help with These Words
By Annette Rey
Do yourself a favor and print a list of these words and tape them at eye level somewhere in your work space. You will thank me later.
Word(s) of the Week 7/1/2018
Category Archives: Grammar Help
Parallelism in Grammar
Add Clarity to Your Writing
By Annette Rey
Parallelism is easy to explain and to apply.
Each – Is, Has, Was
Less and Fewer
The Easy Explanation
By Annette Rey
I believe grammar is made too difficult to understand so risking condemnation from the wordy grammar ghouls out there, here is the shortcut to understanding when to use less and when to use fewer.
About Diagramming Sentences
A Lost Practice
By Annette Rey
I believe if you have a familiarity with diagramming sentences, you will create better sentences. And where a sentence just doesn’t seem right, diagramming can be a great tool to lead you in the right direction to correct your sentence.
The tool is:
Stink, Stank, Stunk
Funny Sounding Verbs
By Annette Rey
How often do you hear anyone say stank? It’s one of those words people think sound quirky, like it’s not a real word at all. People usually say, “The place really stunk!” I guess that’s okay among friends, in informal conversation.
But, as a writer, you need to show a higher level of education. You need to sound credible. You need to know the correct tense of a word to use in your sentences.
Wildly vs. Widely
SO Commonly Confused
By Annette Rey
This particular misuse occurs frequently, on all kinds of platforms of television programs, radio, and in daily conversation. Recently I heard it on a commercial. Curious?
What is the Subject of Your Sentence?
Avoid Confusion for Your Listener
By Annette Rey
I think like a writer and I can’t turn it off; so I find writing material wherever life takes me.
While waiting at a cemetery for a funeral director, I overheard an employee attempt to direct a person to a particular grave section. The words she chose left me confused and it took me some moments to make sense of what she said.
This is what I heard.
Literal vs. Figurative
Little Things Mean A Lot
By Annette Rey
Writers do so much to avoid making mistakes in their writing. They dread seeing a mistake in a final piece of work in black and white on the web or on paper. Writers have to juggle rules of grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, word usage, plot, scene, theme, and more.
With all this on their minds, simple errors can be committed.
Let’s look at the words literal and figurative, both adjectives.
Compliment vs. Complement
There Is a Difference
By Annette Rey
Avoid an embarrassing mistake. Make the right choice for the meaning you want to convey.
