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Month: December 2009

English Editing

Sentences.

Grammar is a way of describing how words are combined to form sentences. SENTENCE: Martin Like Football. | | |…

ManuscripteditDecember 31, 2009December 31, 2009
English Editing

Parts of Sentence.

Putting words into classes like this tells us a lot about how words are used, but it doesn’t tell us…

ManuscripteditDecember 30, 2009December 30, 2009
English Editing

How English Sentences Work.

For this purpose an A-Z arrangement is the most suitable. The problem with grammar, however, is that in order to…

ManuscripteditDecember 29, 2009December 29, 2009
English Editing

Handling Negatives – Neither . . . Nor . . .

Consider these two sentences: X. Keep straight on, swerving neither left or right. X. An assistant commissioner said they could…

ManuscripteditDecember 24, 2009December 24, 2009
English Editing

Handling Negatives – Not . . .Because . . .

In writing especially, not . . . because can give rise to serious ambiguities. Consider these sentences: I didn’t go…

ManuscripteditDecember 22, 2009December 22, 2009
English Grammer

Adverbs Without -LY.

Many adverbs do not end in -ly. Examples include always, soon, today, ever, yet, away, here, so, too. One unusual…

ManuscripteditDecember 21, 2009June 26, 2013
English Editing

Adjectives Ending in -LY – ONLY.

In the use of only, natural idiom is often at odds with logical word order. It is quite natural to…

ManuscripteditDecember 18, 2009December 18, 2009
English Editing

Dangling Participles and Lack of Symmetry – Non-Parallel Constructions.

If elements in a sentence are proposed as parallel in kind, they should be presented as parallel in structure. The…

ManuscripteditDecember 17, 2009December 17, 2009

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