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The Grammar Bitch: Finding Your Voice

Post author By [E] Rachel
Post date Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
14 Comments on The Grammar Bitch: Finding Your Voice

As I’ve mentioned again and again, I’m a huge proponent of writing in a conversational style. For many people, this is a difficult thing to do, mostly because it’s been drilled into them from early on that writing is formal and should sound neutral and bland. For some types of writing, this is absolutely true. […]

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The Grammar Bitch: The Case of the Errant Apostrophe

Post author By [E] Rachel
Post date Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
39 Comments on The Grammar Bitch: The Case of the Errant Apostrophe

Oh, the apostrophe. No other piece of punctuation has the ability to inspire such rage in me. One might wonder why a silly little mark, taking up just the tiniest bit of space on the page, would make me so angry. Well, I’ll tell you why. Very few people seem to know how to use […]

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