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Showing posts with label Pronouns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pronouns. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Look What You Can Tuck Into Your Pocket!

My dream to place help to the grammatically challenged, right into your pocket, is coming alive. The first sixteen parts of my new series — GRAMMAR IN YOUR POCKET — have been gently downloaded onto Kindle. These are the parts of speech and punctuation that give so much trouble to those who want “rules”:
1—Introduction (FREE)
2—Nouns
3—Pronouns
4—Verbs
5—Adjectives
6—Adverbs
7—Clauses and Phrases
8—Conjunctions
9—Prepositions
10—Articles & Interjections
11—Commas
12—Colons, Semicolons, Periods
13—Question Marks & Exclamation Pointns
14—Parentheses, Brackets, & Quotation Marks
15—More Dots and Dashes
16—Putting it All Together (FREE)

#1—The Introduction and #16—Putting It All Together — available FREE — to get you started. Here you’ll understand the problems Americans have learning nefarious grammar “rules”. That's because those infamous, purported, mystical “rules” mostly apply to the linguists who dream them up. (But don’t get me started. See for yourself.)

You can download to your Kindle each or any other section at only 99¢ apiece; such a deal! 
So you want to refresh your understanding of Adjectives? Download Number 5—Adjectives
If you’re unsure about what nouns to capitalize, download Number 2—Nouns
Simple, easy, and instructive: just look in your pocket!
Your grammar skills will impress your boss, your clients, your friends, and your family.

Upcoming will be a section on Tips for Writers. I’m promising that before I leave for my trip to the beach this summer, you will have all you need to know about GRAMMAR IN YOUR POCKET!

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Define the Mighty “It”

  1. It is raining.
  2. It looks like a nice day.
  3. It was a dark and stormy night.
  4. It made me angry.
  5. It was three in the morning.
  6. It felt like doom.
  7. It is hot in here.
  8. It turns out she was his wife.
  9. It happens to be true.
  10. It is time to quit.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Anyone for tennis?

Anyone, anybody, any one, and any body get confused sometimes.  
Anyone generally refers to any person, as in “Anyone in the mood for fun?”  
Any one singles out the subject, as in “Any one of you could stand a little humor.”
As for anybody and any body, same thing! “Does anybody want to play?” “Any body in this room could pull off a good joke.”
Both anybody and anyone are used as singular pronouns that take singular verbs.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

It is I? or It is me?

This is easy when you have my Handy Dandy Pronoun Guide. Think of subjects as the Do-er and objects as the Do-ee.  Because the pronoun “it” is the subject, what follows “is” comes from the Subject column. It is I (both “it” and “I” are subjects). “Me” is an object, sorry, Me!

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Just Between Us

You and I may scuffle if I hear you using: "between you and I". Scrap that one! Bury it! Between is a preposition that requires "me" -- not "I". Tattoo this where you'll remember it: Between you and me.