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Writer's Resource (www.merriam-webster.com) This is a resource I use many, many times every day. Of course the site includes a free basic dictionary, complete with pronunciation help. If you’re not sure how to spell a word, you can take a stab at it and the search feature will give you a list of possibilities. You can also [...]
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The Word The Word will deal with quite a few homophones (words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings). These can be tricky, especially if you’re in a hurry, are relying on spell-check, or never learned the distinctions between these words. Recently I’ve seen quite a few people write “threw” when they meant “through.” What’s [...]
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Newsletter Eric entered the room full of books out of breath and looked nervously around seeing nothing out of place except the shards of the broken vase scattered on the floor in the corner by the display case, and he smelled that strange smell again, fear and something more, something burning as he gingerly touched a [...]
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Writer's Resource This is the classic that belongs on every writer’s bookshelf. Seriously, if everyone who writes in English would read and follow the advice given in The Elements of Style, the world would be a better place (and I would be unemployed). This short, inexpensive little gem provides a usage guide, a section of commonly misused [...]
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Newsletter The distinguished-locking genital man steeped namely from the hoarse drown carriage.* What’s wrong with this sentence? The spelling. Oh yes, I ran spell-check. In fact, about half of those words were chosen using spell-check. They’re all real, honest-to-goodness, correctly spelled words; unfortunately they make no sense when you put them all together. Unless you’re in [...]
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The Word If you confuse these two words, trust me, you are not alone. So what’s the difference? Lie is an intransitive verb meaning “to be in, stay at rest in, or assume a horizontal position.” Its forms are: lie, lay, lain, lying. I like to lie on my sofa. I lay on my sofa all day [...]
