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Guest Post by Damien Venuto Truth be told... yes and no. I vaguely remember my English grammar teacher talking about the subjunctive, but I didn't really have the foggiest idea what it was until I started to learn French and Spanish, where you use the subjunctive all the time. You wouldn’t believe the amount of... Continue Reading →
"I think singular pronoun agreement is evolving out of English; most authors I copy-edit use “they” rather than the correct, “he or she” (or variations). Will you abandon pronoun agreement?" Meg Nash, a freelance writer-editor in the Greater Philadelphia area asked that question just over a month ago in the LinkedIn Writers and Editors group. ... Continue Reading →
Two books that blasted my writing style when I was a beginner, which anybody can now refer to online, are William Strunk and Fowler's The King's English When I studied the Style of Writing at the University of Ottawa, an elective I took towards my theatre degree, the prof preached Fowler and I obediently followed.... Continue Reading →
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