The Most Popular Word in the World
America has given the world many amazing inventions, good and bad—the lightbulb, the atomic bomb, the airplane, Kraft Mac & Cheese. But I’m going to
Tag: grammar
In Defense of Adverbs (in respectful opposition to Stephen King)
Adverbing Your Verbs, or In Defense of Adverbs in Dialogue Tags I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout
New Writers Ask: Why is Sentence Structure So Darned Important?
I often field questions from new writers asking why sentence structure, including grammar and its cousin, syntax, are so important to the craft of writing.