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Reference: Three Writing Articles

Jul 29, 2009 09:41

"Three Grammar Rules You Can (and Should) Break"
Michelle Pierce, Copyblogger

Description: A list of three grammar rules that never made all that much sense to begin with.

Why Is It Useful? A straightforward explanation of much-mocked rules about prepositions and splitting infinitives, including neat things like pop-culture examples. An ancestor ( Read more... )

author:melayneseahawk, reference:grammar articles, formatting, mechanics:capitalization, errors:common errors, pos:adjectives, style, pos:prepositions, pos:adverbs, writing tips

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sidlj July 29 2009, 16:04:15 UTC

Great articles, and lots of other links to pursue and get lost in. Thanks!

melayneseahawk July 29 2009, 16:05:07 UTC

That was exactly the plan. :D

txilar July 29 2009, 16:24:04 UTC

Very nice links! Thanks for posting these.

horusguard76 July 29 2009, 19:00:48 UTC

Very concise and informative articles. Perusing some of them offered links at the referred sites... I realized that I have just started my journey as a writer. Thank you so much for sharing these links.

Is it all right if I forward the links in an entry at my LJ? I will refer to this com of course.

melayneseahawk July 30 2009, 01:42:18 UTC

Go for it!

horusguard76 July 30 2009, 06:42:35 UTC

Thank you.

phasera July 29 2009, 19:15:58 UTC

Thank you for these links!

sg_betty July 29 2009, 22:17:20 UTC

Excellent! I'm particularly enjoying 'Copyblogger', and the many great articles.

Something occured to me while reading about things that are considered incorrect in American english, but are acceptable in British english. As a Canadian, I'm really not sure what to do in these cases.

Canadian english used to demand adherence to British form, but that is no longer that case. Both forms are equally used at this point. In fact, American spelling and usage for some words and phrases is not more common except by the highest sticklers. I've developed a weird mishmash of usage, leaving the u's out because I'm lazy, retaining the 're' construction of words like 'theatre' and abandoning it for some words like 'center'. I use toward and towards equally.

Hmmm... Perhaps this accomodation to both the British and Americans forms is somewhat emblematic of the Canadian identity... ;)

melayneseahawk July 30 2009, 01:45:49 UTC

Really, the rule of thumb is to be consistent.

As a theatre person, I use that spelling because it's common among the Profession, but I know it's much more rare outside. While I am an American, I went to a British-based program while I was in upper grade school, so my punctuation is wonky (much to theemdash's chagrin) and I have to edit out things like "colour" and "programme". So, I'm not really one to talk.

Also, *points to icon*.

sg_betty July 30 2009, 03:47:56 UTC

Lol! Love the icon!