Meet Ailsa Campbell. Ailsa is a great grandmother of an editor (pun intended): she teaches English longer that many of us have been alive. Needless to say that he knows a thing or two about good writing.
Here are top tips of Ailsa to become a better writer.
"Homophones" sounds like a foreign Word, but you use SOUNDEX every day and often incorrectly.
That are words that sound the same (homo - same, telephone - his speech), but have different meanings. Here are a few common homophones that bloggers be wrong.
compliment - for rent (e.g. when tell you your partner that he or she resembles) complement - to balance, compensation or add to (Italian cuisine of complements of red wine) right - correctright - the opposite of leftrite - ritual or ceremonywrite - pen in the final outcome of papereffect-(noun) or the result (the breakdown of the marriage had the effect of the impact of drink driving) affect-(noun) (the drought effect has had on local farmers was unfathomable) descent - dive, fall or ancestry (human trace their descent of the monkey) dissent - disagreement, opposition or dispute (some people express their opposition to the idea that man descended from monkeys... and is quite right - humans and monkeys are descendants of a common ancestor) dependent - tributaries (the answer to the second question was heavily dependent on the answer to the first) to load - a person who depends on others (the poor guy has 13 dependants). Note that this term is used primarily in British English. U.S. English accepts "charge" for both spellings.Ensure that you use the right homophones.
It is convenient or practice? It is a Council or Advisor? It is permitted or licence?
Answer: "c" is for "s" for the verbs and names. Don't forget "c" for "ice" and "s" for "is".
When you play tennis, you practice your swing. When you run a social media company, you run a social media practice. Once again, it is primarily a differentiation of British English. In the United States, it is standard to use for the use of the "c" spelling in both cases.
When you guide somebody to do something, you are informing them. When you receive your client's instructions, you will receive advice.
The license is to make something. Grant this permission to someone is allowed to do so. While in America, the two uses used the "s" spelling, license.
Use "c" for naming the words and the "s" to the words.
Terse sentences are short sentences powerful to give your entry a sense of urgency. For example:
Favreau was blown. How this guy did make such a feat? Is there something that this man could not do?
"Their use in groups of three," explains Ailsa, "as, in the example above, gives a great sense of build-up."
"If you listen to Barack Obama, which is one of the greatest speakers of the day, you'll notice that it often uses groups of three." This is not a chance. He studied and worked at it.
"The use of three terse sentences was an oratorical trick taught by the ancient Greeks, for the attention of the audience and reinforce a point without making tedious." Apply to write too. »
In the world of publishing, using contractions and informal abbreviations (weren't, aren't, can't, etc.) means a very informal type of writing. Contractions are not acceptable in, for example, a section of serious on current affairs. They sound botched.
Even in less formal written, they are best avoided unless you are very precisely that sound "bavard."
When the contractions are useful, however, is of quotations and dialogue, or when you give thoughts of a person. The use of contractions dans dialogue provides the voice of the character to come through, which is a great way to bring your writing to life.
Consider the sentence, "they could not put a finger on it but there was something about Mike." The short form is very well here, because you give their thoughts - less formal language is fair.
Do not say "a selected option b 127 people" or that "the combination cost $100. Just say, "127 people chose option (b)", or "the costume cost $ 100."
Also take into account when writing of the monetary values. Do not "of $ 100," write keep "$ 100." You already said "dollars" by using the symbol $.
What is the problem with the following sentences?
He sold chocolates to the participant.The Lindt have a better choice.The majority of Australian residents already had TV HD and little content to display them.They were a group well known in the 1960s.Answer: The apostrophe is incorrectly used instead of a plural. It should be participating, Lindts, televisions and the 1960s.
There are two uses for the apostrophe - abridged, a verb (it was, did not) and in the possessives (age of Marketing is the idea of Basanti).
What should we do when a possessive is also a plural?
Use of the participants was to choose between two options.
Here the participant is a plural and a possessive, put you the apostrophe after the "s". If the participant is singular, it would put before the "s".
Of all the errors, it seems by far the most important Ailsa, as evidenced by his comment, "" Dammit - if you do stop use of single quotes when you want to say plural, I will kill you. "" In his defence, I had that much of evil.
It is these minor distinctions, as Ailsa likes to say, "separating the sheep from the goats." Get their right and your writing will most commonly be and engaging. Get bad and you will look silly, neglected and without instructions - step how you want your readers to see.
Are you one of these common mistakes in your writing?
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