Using Grammar and Good Manners to Save the World
From the monthly archives:
I spent most of my weekend immersed in family tradition (namely, baking Christmas Stollen for my Dad), and in between shuttling cookie sheets of loaves in and out of the oven, I was thinking about tradition.
We all know about writing traditions. There are entire mythologies surrounding them. The hard-bitten news reporter with the jaunty cap [...]
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Let’s have a brief discussion of Adjectives and Adverbs, shall we?
Adjectives, you may remember from school, are words (or phrases) that modify or describe nouns and pronouns.
The yellow school bus
The red apple.
He is so tall.
The bag was yellow.
When using two or more adjectives in a row, you should divide them by commas.
The big, yellow school bus
The [...]
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Remember, back in school, when your teacher taught you never to start a sentence with a conjunction (and, but, or)?
You’ll be pleased to know that, while it’s true that this is something you should avoid, it’s no longer a mandatory hard-and-fast rule. The important thing is that you not do it all the time. If [...]
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Are you a Pragmatist or a Dreamer? Do you prefer to spend your time in reality or a world all your own?
For whatever reason, this question has been on my mind a lot lately, possibly because there is such a dichotomy staring me in the face every day. Reality TV vs scripted drama. Non-fiction reading [...]
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