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Writing Colons can be used to improve sentences and make your writing more sound. Although you won’t use too many colons in your blog, it’s always a good idea to know their function so that you can use them when you need to. Use a colon after an independent clause to introduce a list of items. Example: There are only three great books you need to read: The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Beowulf. Example: We need to get some things from the store: ...
Continue readingAdjectives and Adverbs to the Rescue!
Writing Blogs are all about telling stores: true stories, informative stories, fiction stories,and even rants and raves. When you blog about your topic, you want people to be interested in what you say. You want people to keep coming back for more and actually enjoy your site. You are a story teller and one way to make your posts interesting is to use adjectives and adverbs. Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns. They modify nouns so ...
Continue readingPlugins for English Nerds
Blogging There are a lot of plugins out on the Internet for bloggers. There are so many in fact, that no matter what you enjoy there’s bound to be a plugin for you to use. I’ve found a few plugins for those book and literary nerds out there who love to let people know silly information. Personally I’m a book nerd so when I found out about the Amazon Showcase WordPress Plugin I was excited. I’m always reading several books at a ...
Continue readingIt’s, its, it is, Huh?
Writing Punctuation can be a pain in the butt. There are so many difficult things to understand in the English language that even native speakers have a hard time with writing. One of the most common problems bloggers have is using the apostrophe ( ‘ ). PattyAnnV Most of the time apostrophes are used to combine words to create a contraction, such as “do not” is transformed into “don’t”. Another such example is “she is”, which is ...
Continue readingBlogging Buddies
Blogging You want to increase traffic to your blog right? One of the easiest ways to get more people to view your blog is to become friends with other blogging sites. By doing this, you can have more viewers and enjoy the benefits of inbound and outbound links. Outbound links are links that start at your blog and direct users to a different blog, while inbound links, or backlinks, bring people to your site from other sites. Both types of linking are ...
Continue readingSemicolons
Writing Punctuation is a part of our everyday life. When we blog we normally just use apostrophes, commas, and periods, but you can use the other punctuation marks to intensify your writing. Semicolons are used to join parts of a compound sentence if there aren’t any coordinating conjunctions used. Coordinating conjunctions are FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So). In other words, use a semicolon to connect two independent sentences by replacing ...
Continue readingSuffering Society
Blogging, Writing The children of the world aren’t the only ones suffering when it comes to grammar errors. Many people believe that the kids nowadays are just lazy and don’t really care. Some people say that it’s the parents’ fault for not making sure their children are getting top marks in their studies. There seems to be a whole generation of children who are terrible spellers and don’t understand the function of grammar. Could ...
Continue readingConfusing Words and Homonyms: Part 6 “V, W, and Y”
Blogging, Writing Sometimes words give us problems because we don’t know that there are words similar to the one we want to use, but mean different things. Sometimes words give us problems because we don’t know any better or we’re just too lazy to make sure that we are correct. Whatever the case, this final installment will help clarify a few common errors that people have with words that are similar and homonyms. Click here for previous ...
Continue readingA Writers Worst Nightmare
Blogging, Writing One of the worst possible scenarios for a writer is not the idea of a bad plot or even a room full of evil people waiting to harshly critique them, it’s being out in public somewhere with a great idea and nothing to write it down on. This may not seem like that big of a deal, but when something strikes, you have to put it down on paper before the words skip out of your head and end up being someone else’s Pulitzer. Don’t let ...
Continue readingConfusing Words and Homonyms: Part 5 “R, S, and T”
Writing There are many words that make writers stumble over, but with this list of confusing words and homonyms you should be better equipped to avoid mistakes. If you missed any previous parts of this series click here. Rain: water that falls from the sky. “The rain is coming down hard.” Reign: to rule over people. “I reign over the elves and the woods.” Rein: a harness. “Pull back on the right side of the rein and the horse will turn.” ...
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