by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Don’t you just hate it? You run the spell check on your article and find ridiculous correction suggestions. I love the little red and blue squiggly lines. Word catches lots of obvious typos like then when you mean than. Misspelled words like mena instead of mean and...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 19, 2015 | Grammar tips
Have you ever gotten confused writing subject verb agreement? I know the whole question makes you yawn. Don’t click away from my blog now. Subject verb agreement is easy to ignore in your initial first draft. Struggling to get the thoughts to flow the mechanics of...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 17, 2015 | Writng Tips Grammar Tips
Antecedents??? Would you believe I got an A in English in high school. And unless I look it up, I can’t recall the definition of an antecedent. In my defense English class was over forty years ago. And as I said in a previous post, I tend to go with what sounds right....
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 12, 2015 | Grammar tips, Writng Tips
Ever get the dreaded editor’s comment on your manuscript “You need stronger verbs.” Editors describe your verbs as passive, weak, dead or flat? Yep! You know you have. As promised, today’s post is about weak verbs. The second hazard mentioned in Joyce Ellis’ booklet 8...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 10, 2015 | Writng Tips
Grammar rules for me are as boring as listening to a high school literature class read Shakespeare out loud. But a professional reading is enthralling. Well, I’m enthralled by a little booklet by my friend Joyce Ellis, whom I consider the Queen of Grammar rules, as an...
