Quotation marks are used to identify words that someone has said. You’ll often find them in fiction, where they signify dialogue, the words spoken by the characters. In newspapers, journalists use quotation marks to signify that something is a direct quote from a person in the article. In academic papers, quotation marks can signify that you […]
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Kristen Kieffer October 10, 2018 Ah, the Great Prologue Debate. Should they or should they not have a place in fiction? The necessity of prologues (or lack thereof) is a topic that’s frequently discussed in online writing circles, and today I’d like to add my two cents to the clamor. You see, I feel pretty
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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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