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Misidentifying the Passive Voice
I have a client who’s specifically requested I point out gratuitous use of passive voice; more recently, we were chatting about good use of passive voice. (Think: “mistakes were made.”) When passive...
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Grammar Moves on the Dance Floor
Suh-tee-bun! That’s my name (스티븐) pronounced in Korean. Each consonant must be followed by a vowel sound, which means my two-syllable name has three syllables when spoken in Korean. Perhaps I’m a bad...
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That Darned Godlike Narrator
Whether the narrator is the voice of the author or a character telling us the tale in first-person, your narrator is a character in your story. And omniscient, all-knowing narrators shouldn’t be...
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Possessive
There are some seriously bookish, utterly geeky friends who populate my little corner of the world. As you might imagine, this tends to lead to some rather odd discussions. There are probably not too...
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Professionalism
Writing. Something everyone can do, but something very few excel in. Now, before I get into the swing of things, there is a delineation I’d like to draw between people writing for fun, and people...
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