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Grammarly – Your Personal Online Editor and Grammar Correction Tool
Personal, Reviews As a writer, you’re constantly being watched and judged by the content that you write. Even though no one is perfect, small mistakes in your writing can often cause an uproar among your readers. That’s why it’s really important to have a second set of eyes or an automatic tool like Grammarly to help you out. Grammarly is a web-based editor that describes itself as the “world’s most accurate grammar checker.” It automatically ...
Continue reading5 Mistakes Every Blogger Will Make, Including You
Blogging, Writing There’s a simple truth to life that every human being will make mistakes. Since every blogger is human, at least the ones that aren’t spambots, then every blogger will screw up inevitably. On BloggingPro, I recently wrote an article about how to recover from the mistakes you make but the question becomes “What kind of mistakes can one expect to make?” With blogging, as with life, there are very few guarantees but there ...
Continue readingAfter The Deadline: Much More than Spell Checking
WordPress Plugins All major browsers, save Internet Explorer 8, have inline spell checking as a feature out of the box and even IE can be trivially updated to do so. This has been a boon for bloggers who do much of their writing in the browser and having the spell checker built into their browser has probably prevented millions of typos from seeing the light of day. However, when Automattic purchased After the Deadline (AtD) last year, I knew it was important. ...
Continue readingThird Person Pronouns
Writing In this final article on pronouns I will be addressing pronouns used for third person. Pronouns take the place of nouns which means that third person pronouns do the same thing. They take the place of people, but these pronouns do not include first person or second person forms. Third person singular pronouns are: he, she, and it. These pronouns are used when the pronoun is the subject of the sentence. Example: He went to the store and never ...
Continue readingPronouns Are Fun Too
Writing Most of us already know how to use pronouns and don’t have any problems writing other than the occasional spelling mistake or the lack of creative words, but some people have a difficult time. Grammar is not very interesting, yes I understand that, but it is what I was hired to write about so bear with me and the dry lesson. I’ll try to spice it up with interesting examples. Last week I wrote about first person singular pronouns ...
Continue readingBlogging and Me, or Is It I?
Writing Pronouns take the place of a noun. When we write our blogs we use pronouns all of the time, but do we use them correctly? Example: At seven years old I said, “Me and Mike want ice cream.” And my grandmother said (just like she did every time I made a grammatical error), “Mike and I.” I was taught that saying “Mike and I” was always correct while “Mike and me” was not. This is not always the case however. First person singular ...
Continue readingConjunction, Junction, What’s Your Function: Part 2
Blogging, Writing When writing, whether for your blog or for personal reasons, conjunctions are grammatical tools that you use all of the time. Understanding the functions of these conjunctions (yes, that was pretty corny) is the first step in creating stronger writing skills. Last week we looked at coordinating conjunctions which combined two independent clauses. If you missed the previous post click here. Coordinating conjunctions are used often in writing, but ...
Continue readingThe Capitalization Wars
Writing Last month on this site, Patricia laid out a very simple rule for capitalization when it comes to titles, she said that writers should capitalize major or important words in a title or headline. She is absolutely correct. That is the rule I was taught in high school and again in college where I studied journalism. I didn’t question it at all until, more recently, I’ve begun noticing that the sites I link to don’t seem to obey ...
Continue readingCaPiTaLiZaTiOn
Writing To capitalize, or not to capitalize, that is the question. Okay, I realize that using Shakespeare’s famous soliloquy from Hamlet for a post about grammar is next to blasphemous, but capitalization is an important thing to look at. (Maybe not as important as pondering the meaning of life as Hamlet is doing, but that’s beside the point.) An important grammar rule in the English language is punctuation and within this category there are ...
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 ...
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