For writers and editors, a large vocabulary is not a luxury. Words are our stock in trade. They are both our tools, and the products those tools create. Even more important than having a large vocabul…
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Getting to Know Words
Posted October 22, 2009
Four Main Categories of Reporting Error
Posted October 22, 2009
Despite the astounding number of errors we encounter every day, it's a bit surprising to realise that they really only come in about four flavours:
1) Auditory errors
2) Transcription errors
3) Source…
Intuitive approach to prepositions
Posted October 15, 2009
Almost all our communication deals with expressing the relation of one noun’s position to some other element. The words we use for this are called “prepositions”: words that indicate the “position” of…
Intuitive approach to verbs
Posted October 15, 2009
In “Grammar Help: The simple, intuitive way to understand subject and object,” we looked at how every native speaker of English already knows the difference between subjects and objects, and we lear…
Simple & intuitive subject and object
Posted October 15, 2009
The principles of grammar are inherently simple. Just as all mathematical operations essentially boil down to adding and subtracting (division is just repeated subtractions, multiplication is repeated…
When words go bad/when words go good
Posted October 14, 2009
When words go bad
1) Bloviation
“Danka delivers value to clients worldwide by using its expert technical and professional services to implement effective document information solutions. As one of the…
Tips & Tricks Articles
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Handy Internet Resources
Punctuation Made Simple
(Colon, semicolon, comma, dash, apostrophe)
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Rules
Guide to Grammar and Writing
The late Dr. Charles Darling's outstanding site.
