Grammar & Punctuation – Formation – English editing.

Flies, bees, beetles, wasps, and other insects are segmented creatures – head, thorax, and abdomen. Where these parts join, there appears to the imaginative eye a ‘cutting in’ of the body. Hence the branch of zoology dealing with insects is aptly named entomology, from Greek en-, in, plus tome, a cutting. The adjective is entomological. […]

Repeating a word or phrase can have positive advantages, alongside the negative virtue of averting confusion. It  can serve to emphasise ideas and drive a point home, and to link two separate ideas by signposting their similarity or contrast. And it can produce a number of rhetorical effects as well –Such as  humour, persuasiveness, or […]