Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Idiom of the Day
Credit: TheFreeDictionary
a falling outA severe quarrel or disagreement, especially one that leads to a temporary or permanent end of a relationship. |
Link to Writers' Guides
| Parts of Speech . . . and Beyond A detailed discussion of parts of speech – not just definitions but extensive treatment of subdivisions and rules for use. | |
| Those Pesky Verbals An examination of gerunds, infinitives, and participles. | |
| Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement The rules for making pronouns agree with their antecedents, with some notes on how to avoid "sexist" pronouns. | |
| Parallelism A discussion of balanced sentence structure. | |
| Uses of the Semicolon Short and simple guide to use of the semicolon. | |
| Comma Splices How to avoid and correct one of the most common errors – the comma splice. | |
| Brief Guide to Comma Usage Outline of the rules for when to use commas and when not to use them. | |
| Toward Concise Writing Some pointers on how to make writing more concise. | |
| Possessive Nouns: The Apostrophe An explanation of the rules for forming the possessive case of nouns by adding either an apostrophe + s or just an apostrophe. | |
| The Pronoun Trap Among the most embarrassing errors are those involving common pronouns. Here is how to avoid such errors. | |
| Agreement of Subject and Verb Rules for subject–verb agreement, with illustrative sentences. | |
| Hyphenated Words: A Guide When should a word be hyphenated and when not hyphenated? Here are some answers. | |
| "Which" Versus "That" A brief explanation of when to use which and when to use that. | |
| Active and Passive Voice of Verbs The voice of verbs – where the subject does the action (active) and where the action is done to the subject (passive). | |
| Sentence Patterns A fairly detailed account of types of sentences and how they are structured. | |
| The Five C's A description of the five components of effective writing. |
Sunday, May 15, 2016
| STORIES | ARTICLES | ENGLISH | DIY | POEMS & LYRICS | FUN STUFF |
In Silence
by Shinta Harini
I plopped down on my seat, and sighed. I was hoping for a window seat on this flight home from New York. Coming home to a home that was no longer a home after my parents’ separation was a really hard trip to make. I needed time to work things out. But here I was, on an aisle seat. Next to a guy with eyes bluer than the ocean… A guy…
Hey, I knew this guy! I looked closely at him. He was looking out the porthole. Sometimes he nodded his head to the tune of a song he was listening to on his earphones.
“Going to Des Moines?” I said, trying my luck. I had to raise my voice above the loud music that I could hear even without the earphones.
“What?” He stared at me, taking off the earphones. “Des Moines? Yeah. Yeah.” His voice trailed off. My heart leapt up.
Des Moines! Perfect! I mustered the courage to ask, “You’re Jordan Ward, aren’t you?”
He stared hard at me. I freaked out. I felt my face reddening at once.
Match Up
| STORIES | ARTICLES | ENGLISH | DIY | POEMS & LYRICS | FUN STUFF |
Credit: TheFreeDictionary
Match each word in the left column with its synonym on the right. When finished, click Answer to see the results. Good luck!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)