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Writing Mechanics: Avoiding the “I” Trap and Other Irritants
In today’s post editor Linda Clare continues our look at Fatal Flaw #12: Flawed Writing Mechanics. We’ve taken a look at scene structure,…
Getting Possessive with Gerunds
Let’s talk about the use of possessive pronouns with a gerund (word ending in ing). It sounds more complicated and…
Joint Ownership
Let’s talk a bit about joint possession and the proper way to express this. Possession can get a bit tricky, and…
Do Yourself a Favor and Learn about Reflexive Pronouns
I sometimes see writers misuse reflexive pronouns—pronouns that have the suffix self (or selves) tagged on. For example, note these…
Clear and Present Antecedents
Pronouns take the place of nouns. When you use a pronoun, you must be sure that its antecedent (what it…
Such Is the Way of Pronouns
I discussed last week how we tend to default to “their” when following singular pronouns, which is bad, bad, bad….
Each Writer Should Correct Their Own Grammar
Dreading to deal with the ubiquitous “their,” let’s just get it over with. It’s become so common for us to…
Between I or Me?
I see this a lot, and from what I’ve researched, objective case confuses some people. It does me too. A…
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