Happy New Year, everyone!
My granddaughter shared a funny story with me. She works in a middle school and was helping a student revise his work. The assignment was to make a comic strip about a scene in the book Jennifer Murdley’s Toad, and this particular student chose the scene where the young woman protagonist is humiliated because she has to wear her brother’s underpants and everyone at school finds out. (It is a very amusing book, to say the least!) Continue reading
There’s a lot more to your word processing program than just spell checker!
For most PC and MAC versions of MS Word:
A preposition is a connecting word that shows the relationship between words in a sentence, and elaborates meaning. A prepositional phrase begins with one of the prepositions below. A very common mistake is to match the verb in the sentence to the word at the end of the prepositional phrase, rather than to the subject of the sentence (“A selection of three entrees is available at dinner” is correct; “A selection of three entrees are available at dinner” is incorrect). By learning to recognize a preposition when you see is, you can avoid this grammatical error.
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve talked about how to get started quickly and easily with your business writing. This week in Part 6, my focus is on Formats: Because Writing is a Visual Art.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve talked about how to get started quickly and easily with your business writing. This week in Part 5, my focus is on Determining Content: Logical Flow.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve talked about how to get started quickly and easily with your business writing. This week in Part 4, my focus is on Writing the First Paragraph.