Cutting Words with Efficient Verbs
If you want to say something with fewer words in English, it’s often possible to choose more specific vocabulary. When it comes to choosing your verbs, this can impact entire phrases. Today, I’m looking at a common issue in my fiction editing work, where we have verbs...
How to use Single or Double Quotation Marks
In English, we can indicate quoted text with either single quotes, ‘–’ or double quotes, “–”. Typically it is expected that you use one style or the other, but they can also be combined. This can lead to some confusion as to exactly when you should use double or...
How to Structure Sentences Logically
I often discuss breaking down sentence structure and word order to demonstrate how understanding sentence components helps provide flexibility with structure. You can use the full word order guide to help with this here. Today, though, I’d like to discuss cases when...
Using Pronouns and Determiners to Clarify General Plurals
Effective pronoun and determiner use in English can be tricky and very nuanced. I’ve already got a few articles on their uses here, where I’ve said it’s hard to learn from the rules alone. The issue I want to discuss here is when general plurals are used instead of...Want to Master English?
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