"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... )

aurora_novarum asked:

When you are expressing an interrogatory of high emotion, how do you punctuate it? (with examples from Stargate SG-1)

While it's generally considered to be cautiously acceptable to use multiple exclamation marks and/or question marks in casual correspondence, it's severely frowned upon everywhere else. However, there are a number of other ( Read more... )

handmademark asked, "What is a split infinitive? Why is it so bad?"

( With examples from NCIS to entertainingly aid our understanding )

t_verano poses an interesting question: When is it appropriate to use "which" vs. "that"? What is the appropriate comma use in each situation?

Is there, in fact, a distinct rule that applies to this situation? Or does it depend entirely on mood, which can change from one moment to the next?

( Let's find out, with examples from Discworld... )

Dialogue: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

With examples from Saiyuki, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, NICS, and Weiss Kreuz.Dialogue is the backbone of most stories. It's a rare story that doesn't feature dialogue, and that's even more true in the world of fanfiction, where setting a scene usually comes second to letting familiar characters ( Read more... )

forestgreen wanted to know:

How do you indicate internal thought vs. dialogue? (with examples from Stargate SG-1, Heroes, and Supernatural)

Unlike some of the questions we answer here, this is an issue of style, and there is no simple right or wrong answer. There are, however, common conventions you can follow.

( Meanwhile, on the other side of the cut... )