I’m here today to de-mythify the rules of grammar. Yep, that’s right. There are real grammar myths embedded into what most people think are hard and fast rules. I’m going to tackle three of the most popular right this minute, take them head on, throw them to the ground and beat them to a pulp. …
Permanent link to this article: http://canamauthorservices.com/2012/09/03/three-grammar-myths/
So, I’m reading some articles that just made the muscles in my neck strain and shake in my growing annoyance at seeing multiple grammar mistakes. The writer kept writing “then” when he/she meant “than.” Being that the articles were published online, I couldn’t click on the mistakes and fix them. It drove me nuts. And …
Permanent link to this article: http://canamauthorservices.com/2012/08/27/grammar-peeves/
Capitalization rules are really some of the easiest to remember and apply when taking the whole world of grammar into consideration. But one little rule continues to plague our writing – the desire to capitalize titles and words we consider to be “special” nouns. Let’s first outline a few rules. Just to let you know, …
Permanent link to this article: http://canamauthorservices.com/2011/09/28/capitalizing-nouns/
Recently, I posted a string of Facebook statuses (no matter how much I want to make it stati, this is not a word). The original status was prompted by my daughter’s status in which she said something about “In a few week’s” or something like that. The apostrophe rankled. It mocked and tormented me. There …
Permanent link to this article: http://canamauthorservices.com/2011/09/21/facebook-psa-du-jour/
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