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December 01, 2009 01:52 PM EST --
(continued from Part 01 )
To say that the Two-thousands are ending might seem laughable in the sense that Two-thousands (2000s) also refers to a century and a millennium. Don’t we have . . .
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December 01, 2009 01:43 PM EST --
The first decade of this millennium is ending. So isn’t it about time we knew what it was called?
(I know that my first statement is technically untrue on the grounds that, since there . . .
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September 11, 2009 01:02 AM EDT --
INTRODUCTION: This is the first chapter of a novel I'm working on. The genre I would best describe as humorous speculative fiction. Please let me know your thoughts. Would you keep reading? Or, worst . . .
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July 04, 2009 02:30 PM EDT --
Michael Jackson vs Elvis
Some random, unresearched observations of comparison and contrast. Feel free to comment, correct, and add your own!
SIMILARITIES:
Both . . .
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June 24, 2009 04:04 PM EDT --
Ahmajenidad-Mousavi 2009 vs. Bush-Gore 2000
Some random, unresearched observations of comparison and contrast. Feel free to comment, correct, and add your own!
SIMILARITIES: . . .
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April 20, 2009 11:17 AM EDT --
The answer to the titular question ought to be obvious—his leaks to Woodward and Bernstein led to the downfall of a presidency. He gave us the first time in the history of our nation that a . . .
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March 13, 2009 10:07 AM EDT --
This game is based on the idea of Scattergories™, in which players try to think of different words starting with the same letter that fit into a set of categories. In this version, however, . . .
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March 12, 2009 04:10 PM EDT --
In the last post we examined how adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. And I asked if there were any one adverb capable of doing all three.
The answer was in my hint: there’s . . .
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March 09, 2009 08:31 AM EDT --
This game is based on the idea of Scattergories™, in which players try to think of different words starting with the same letter that fit into a set of categories. In this version, however, there’s only . . .
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March 08, 2009 07:55 AM EDT --
This game is based on the idea of Scattergories™, in which players try to think of different words starting with the same letter that fit into a set of categories. In this version, however, there’s . . .
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March 08, 2009 01:28 AM EST --
This game is based on the idea of Scattergories™, in which players try to think of different words starting with the same letter that fit into a set of categories. In this version, however, there’s . . .
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March 08, 2009 12:32 AM EST --
You’re anxiously awaiting the response to a manuscript you dutifully submitted for critique, competition, or publication. You’ve labored extensively on meticulously selecting the most incisively . . .
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August 13, 2008 01:14 PM EDT --
Previous post: Total Ellipse
In typing ellipses, you might have noticed that three consecutive periods triggers an autocorrect feature in Word. It converts “period-period-period” into . . .
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August 13, 2008 12:34 PM EDT --
In my last post , I remarked that we were going to look at the most common use of periods in fiction after terminating a sentence: ellipses.
First, a clarification. Ellipses is the plural of both . . .
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August 05, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
The lowly period is the smallest of all punctuation marks. Easy to overlook Easy to accidentally double.. And those two goofs alone might cost me a publishing contract.
But it’s the period’s other . . .
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July 29, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Here's a quick overview of the helpful articles on grammar and writing now available at The Grammar Weasel :
Dangling Participles (series of 2 articles)
Participial Phrases
Absolute . . .
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July 28, 2008 12:44 AM EDT --
German may be a tough language to learn, but they did make it easy on us in one aspect: all nouns are capitalized. You never have to beat your Brain against your Skull wondering whether this Word or that . . .
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July 25, 2008 05:10 PM EDT --
She only wanted him for his body--his dead body.
Bored with her job as editor of the classifieds at a weekly tabloid, Valerie Darling turns to the personal ads placed in her paper and plays matchmaker. . . .
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July 25, 2008 05:06 PM EDT --
PROLOGUE
8:30 p.m. Thursday, September 17 (Brooks University, Winfrey Hall)
I'm a single Christian white male, 23, with no car.
Please, if you had to reread that, then just . . .
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July 25, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
We've done a lot of griping about disappearing homepages, roundabout or impossible navigation, and the degrading of the intelligent article to the post (as in dumb-as-a). (And has nobody even . . .
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John L.
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