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
Tag Archives: Grammar Help
Parallelism in Grammar
Add Clarity to Your Writing
By Annette Rey
Parallelism is easy to explain and to apply.
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.
Writers Using English
Refresh and Recheck Your English Skills
By Annette Rey
English and non-English first language speakers, listen up! The site mentioned below may be one of the most useful you will find to help you improve your speaking and writing of English. It will also increase your understanding of English. Understanding the core of a subject is when the light bulb shines in your brain and makes learning the rest of the material easier.
The site is: Continue reading
Embarrassing Error #7
Television News Ticker Error
By Annette Rey
While watching the news and reading the written news ticker across the bottom of the screen, I lost all interest in the broadcast when I saw an error.
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.
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.
I vs. Me
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.
Insure vs. Ensure
Not So Difficult
By Annette Rey
The difference between these two words is fairly easy to remember.
Hone vs. Home
Think of Sharpened Birds
By Annette Rey
Playing with words can help us remember what we need to recall as we write.
Writer's Block No More 