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Visit speakingwriting.informational.caA sentence is an assemblage of words so arranged as to convey a determinate sense or meaning, in other words, to express a complete thought or idea. No matter how short, it must co...
The newspaper nowadays goes into every home in the land; what was formerly regarded as a luxury is now looked upon as a necessity. No matter how poor the individual, he is not too...
Many people object to discussion, but they are invariably those on the midway rounds of the conversational ladder; people to whom the joy of the amicable intellectual tussle is unk...
These are words which often give to expressions a meaning far from that intended. Thus, "I have nothing to do with that other rascal across the street," certainly means that I am a...
"Don't say, These kind; those sort. Kind and sort are each singular and require the singular pronouns this and that. In connection with these demonstrative adjective pronouns remem...
"Says I" is a vulgarism; don't use it. "I said" is correct form.
Never use and with the relative in this manner: "That is the dog I meant and which I know is of pure breed." This is an error quite common. The use of and is permissible when there...
Good conversation is more easily defined by what it is not than by what it is. To come to any conclusions on this subject, one should first determine: What is the aim of conversati...
In the following examples the word or words in parentheses are uncalled for and should be omitted: 1. Fill the glass (full). 2. They appeared to be talking (together) on private af...
In order of merit are: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, As You Like It, Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's D...
The use of the first personal pronoun should be avoided as much as possible in composition. Don't introduce it by way of apology and never use such expressions as "In my opinion,"...
In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no matter how much we may read of the b...
Scarlet Letter, Parkman's Histories, Motley's Dutch Republic, Grant's Memoirs, Franklin's Autobiography, Webster's Speeches, Lowell's Bigelow Papers, also his Critical Essays, Thor...
Further is commonly used to denote quantity, farther to denote distance. "I have walked farther than you," "I need no further supply" are correct.
Don't forget that prepositions always take the objective case. Don't say "Between you and I"; say "Between you and me" Two prepositions should not govern one objective unless there...
Sometimes the beginning of a sentence presents quite a different grammatical construction from its end. This arises from the fact probably, that the beginning is lost sight of befo...
Sing. Plural 2nd person Be (you) loved Be (you) loved Subjunctive Mood
"This much is certain" should be "Thus much or so much is certain."
Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe. (The best translation of Homer for the ordinary reader is by Chapman. Norton's translation of Dante and Taylor's translation of Goe...
"The hurt it was that painful it made him cry," say "so painful."
"I am come" points to my being here, while "I have come" intimates that I have just arrived. When the subject is not a person, the verb to be should be used in preference to the ve...