Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2009
Questions
A phone call early this morning was about language usage and grammar. Usage of nor versus or. How is traumatic spelled? Should it be modified with very? And the patron being Mrs. Connolly, the telephone number of Staples in Lawrence?
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Overstuffed Sentences
Rules of style and grammar from the New York Times.
The phrase “the fact that” is often a warning of complications to come — it suggests that the writer hasn’t found the clearest, simplest path to convey the idea.
Pare down sentences.
Separating the verb from the object by not one but two prepositional phrases made it sound as though we were translating from Latin.
in most cases, the adverb should be adjacent to the word it modifies.
‘More Than’ vs. ‘Over’
The phrase “the fact that” is often a warning of complications to come — it suggests that the writer hasn’t found the clearest, simplest path to convey the idea.
Pare down sentences.
Separating the verb from the object by not one but two prepositional phrases made it sound as though we were translating from Latin.
in most cases, the adverb should be adjacent to the word it modifies.
‘More Than’ vs. ‘Over’
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