Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl How to use the word “myself” is one of the top 10 or 20 questions I get. Here’s an example: Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Chuck Tomasi, your interim Grammar Guy from ChuckChat.com, home of podcasts too numerous to mention. I hear and see examples of the misuse of the word “myself” […]
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You know how books about writing novels and stories always talk about “conflict”? And you eye your delicate love story or strange evocation of an agoraphobic fantasist, and wonder how you’re supposed to get the Kalashnikovs or the divorce-court drama in there? I know why it gets said – I know why this issue matters,
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Emma Darwin (British-English spellings) When I let myself in for giving a workshop on Characterisation at Writers’ Workshop’s Getting Published event yesterday, I realised I haven’t blogged directly about Characterisation as much as some things. It is a big subject, but for me, it’s all founded in Aristotle: a character without action isn’t a story, it’s a
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Who’s is a contraction linking the words who is or who has, and whose is the possessive form of who. They may sound the same, but spelling them correctly can be tricky. To get into the difference between who’s and whose, read on. Who’s vs. Whose Both who’s and whose come from the pronoun who (shocking, right?). Who’s is a contraction, meaning