Most writers know that an apostrophe shows possession for a noun; the omission of some letters in a word or numbers in a year; and the plurality of single letters, numbers, and abbreviations. But the apostrophe has other uses as well that may not be in the forefront of our minds when we are writing. […]
With the various types of punctuation, there should be some hard-and-fast rules for their usage, right? Well, there are. The problem that people have generally lies in either they don’t know the rules or they confuse American rules with British rules. When in a quote, the period and the comma always go inside the quotation […]
Incorporating necessary backstory without making the story complicated or overly detailed for the reader can be done in a variety of ways. I have come up with tips to get you thinking about how to work in the backstory for your book. Present first, then flashback. Begin with a dramatic moment in the present, […]
Some marks of punctuation depend on the context of the words as to whether they will go inside or outside the quotation marks. The question mark is one such punctuation mark. When what is in the quotation marks is a question, the question mark will go inside the quotation marks. When the entire sentence is […]
Verbs denoting action often require objects to complete the thought and the meaning. These verbs are called transitive verbs. The objects, like the subjects of the verbs, are usually nouns and pronouns. The direct object is the noun the verb is acting upon, and the indirect object is the noun that is being affected by […]
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