Masterful Verbs and Adjectives Part 2
Last week we looked at some of the creative usages of nouns, verbs, and adjectives by my favorite author Patricia…
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Masterful Uses of Verbs and Adjectives
One of the adages I learned from my whacky high school English teacher was this: use strong nouns and verbs….
Don’t Raise a Ruckus about Rise and Raise
Here’s a little grammar lesson. Some verbs are transitive. This means they take a direct object. Writers often run into…
I Would if I Could . . .
Some people might consider the distinction between could and would to be only a matter of degree of politeness (would…
Don’t Be in Error of Circumlocution
Here’s a simple way to tighten up your writing: look for phrases using be in your passages. Verb phrases using…
A Simple, Fun Lesson about Participial Phrases
Now, don’t get all hot and bothered by the expression “participial phrase.” Something that is participial has to do with…
Turning Verbs into Nouns May Be Bad for Your Writing
In the previous post on nominalizations, I talked about how nominalizations are formed and briefly touched on a general approach…
Pass the Collocations
Collocations. Isn’t that a neat word? It refers to regular pairings of words, and boy, there are many I use incorrectly and have…
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