Words such as rather, pretty, very, and little are the leeches that infest the body of prose, sucking the blood of words. We should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one and we are pretty sure to violate it […]
Some word pairs flummox even the most literate writers. We use a word to say one thing, but its opposite form seems not to exist. Or does it? In some pairs, apparent opposites have the same meaning. English is a mongrel language with a motley history, which means that our words don’t always make sense.
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“If you don’t think punctuation matters, try forgetting the comma in, I’m sorry, I love you.” A colleague recently bemoaned the tendency among some business writers to send emails without punctuating them. She had received an email that said, “order misdelivered sent to wrong branch but we fixed it” How hard would it have been,
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These five word pairs often trip up business writers. Learn to distinguish between their/they’re/there, accept/except, affect/effect and others.
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“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” Here are a few ways to overcome writer’s block easily.
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