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:
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.
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?
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.
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.
There Is a Difference
By Annette Rey
Avoid an embarrassing mistake. Make the right choice for the meaning you want to convey.
Not So Hard
By Annette Rey
To all the writers whose primary language is not English, and who are trying to use English correctly in your writing, I sympathize.
