Eliminating Weak Adverbs from Your Writing
Understand how to make your writing clearer and more concise by replacing weak adverbs with precise verbs and powerful adjectives.
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Mini Grammar Lesson: Subject-Verb Agreement
Let’s discuss one of the most frequently broken grammatical rules: subject-verb agreement. We’ll start with the basics and then move onto agreement with complex subjects, like those that contain “and,” “or,” “nor,” fractions, percentages, or indefinite quantities.
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Grammar Mini Lesson: The 4 Sentence Structures
There are four sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Varying your sentence structure makes your writing more dynamic and interesting. Let’s look at each type of sentence to examine the differences between them.
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Mini Grammar Lesson: Who vs. That
Who and that are both relative pronouns referring to nouns in a sentence. These are commonly confused with one another, but it’s important to know the difference between them, so you can use them correctly in your writing.
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Mini Grammar Lesson: Plurals vs. Possessives
A common mistake I see as an editor is incorrectly formed plurals and possessives. It can be easy to accidentally add an apostrophe where it’s not needed or leave one out where it is. Without knowing the grammatical rules for plurals and possessives, editing your manuscript can be challenging.
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