Research has a bad reputation. Some people might have topics which interest them that they can research with some enjoyment, but as a whole, research is one of those tasks we must simply get done. What if you are a fiction writer? I’m talking straight up fiction, not historical. You have simply created your own […]
Category: Grammar and Punctuation
Sneaky Prepositions: The Controversy of the Preposition Rule
I know that these grammar posts are likely to open me up for harsh ridicule. I am telling people that there are rules to learn, and there are many who get hostile when they are told there are standards. In fact, the source which prompted my writing this post spent most of their post mocking […]
“Conjunctions” or “The Marriage of Thoughts” Pt. 2
I would like to start part 2 of my conjunctions blog post by revisiting one of the examples in part 1. If you recall, I gave an example from English Grammar for Dummies by Geraldine Woods and showed how modern authors would “fix” a run-on sentence. Here is that portion of my previous post. “‘I […]
“Conjunctions” or “The Marriage of Thoughts”
I would like my first post about grammar to focus on a pet peeve of mine. There is a tendency in writing that has grown more and more pronounced with the passage of time. This tendency is for conjunctions to be used after a period, or in other words, at the beginning of a sentence. […]