Archive for Style And Usage
Showing Contrast In Your Paragraphs
When writing, a basic grasp of correct usage is frequently not enough when you’re working to turn text that effectively gets its message across. Even when you use a grammar software to correct weak points, you’ll still have to make sure you express ideas in a manner that can affect your readers. For the most [...]
Future Tense: How To Write It
Future tenses are an odd lot. For one, according to grammarians, there is no real future tense in the English language. Instead, what we get in English are ways of talking about future events. At any rate, the whole “no future tense” is an issue best left to those who study the underpinnings of the [...]
Difference Between Bring And Take
In yet more words that English speakers frequently misuse in their writing are the verbs “bring” and “take”. While they may appear to do the same thing, the two are actually not interchangeable (regardless of tense) and actually carry very different connotations. “Bring”, used correctly, is an action that indicates carrying a particular object from [...]
Do You Have “Much, Many Or A Lot Of”?
Quantifiers, those words that pertain to numbers and quantities, are among the most confusing things in the English language. Often pointing towards similar but not the same meanings, they can lead to plenty of misuse among unfamiliar writers in the vernacular, especially those who continue to write without the aid of the best English writing [...]
