FRIDAY FEATURE: Constructive Criticism and You

Saturday, 21 February 2015 13:50
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The English language is full of quite a few foul words, but few are as foul as one most nefarious nine-letter word: criticism. (Quick! Walk outside, turn around three times, and spit over your shoulder!)

Receiving criticism is one of the hardest parts of writing—harder, perhaps, than finishing that first draft. But before we get into it and what makes it such a chore to endure, we're going to have ourselves a little Greek Mythology 101 lesson:

( More than likely, you've heard of a vain pretty-boy named Narcissus. )

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Friday Funnies: When English Teachers Snap

Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:59
ariestess: (regina apple -- from miz_tith)
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I may not be an English teacher, but I'm mentally doing this exact same thing more often than I care to admit. LOL!

If you had the opportunity to do something like this, would you? What if there were absolutely no consequences involved at all?
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Friday Funnies: The Passive Voice

Saturday, 28 September 2013 20:20
chomiji: Tenpou from Saiyuki Gaiden. with the caption Not necessarily by the book (Tenpou - Not by the book)
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An image of a twitter post. The poster, Rebecca Johnson, says that - I finally leaned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert 'by zombies' after the verb, you have passive voice.
— From Grammarly, citing Rebecca Johnson et seq. on Twitter

If the details of active vs. passive voice are still eluding you, check out [livejournal.com profile] supercheesegirl's FG post on Passive Voice.

With apologies for the lateness!

 

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Friday Funnies: The Joke's In the Alt Text

Friday, 31 May 2013 18:53
[identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
A flash from the literary past:


alt text: My all-time favorite example of syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.'
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ANSWER: "try to" vs. "try and"

Monday, 9 March 2009 11:35
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When is it appropriate to use "try to" vs. "try and"?
(With examples from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.)

( But Yoda says there is no try... )
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Grammar 101: Prepositions & Phrases

Friday, 13 February 2009 06:43
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Grammar 101 - Advanced Verbs

Friday, 6 February 2009 21:10
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Grammar 101: Advanced Verbs - with examples from Stargate SG-1.

Now that we've learned about verbs, basic sentence structure and parts of speech, it's time to look at advanced verbs - the various forms of verbs known as verbals and moods.

( Advanced Verbs or When is a Verb Not a Verb? )
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Answer: Verbs after indefinite pronouns and neither/nor

Monday, 19 January 2009 08:31
[identity profile] mendax.livejournal.com
This week we get two related questions for the price of one. [livejournal.com profile] rykaine wants to know, "What are the appropriate conjugations for verbs following either, neither, none, each, etc.?" And [livejournal.com profile] earth2skye asks, "Should it be a singular or plural verb after 'neither he nor'?"

With examples from QI, The Sentinel, and Jeeves and Wooster.

( No, verbs cannot just agree to disagree )
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Grammar 101: Basic Sentence Structure

Friday, 16 January 2009 13:36
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Grammar 101: Basic Sentence Structure with examples from Supernatural

We've been talking about individual words for the last few weeks, but now it's time to put them together: into sentences.

( What is a sentence? )
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