pronouns

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• 4 Tips for Writing Sex Scenes, pt 1

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 477
  Sex scenes are hard - pun intended. Theyve become nearly essential to a good romance. Writing one that is believable and heated can require a lot of effort. If youre uncomfortable it shows and turns off readers. So where does one start? By remembering that the sex scenes are for and about your characters and not ...
  3 days ago

• Rapacious Partners: Who wants to be rescued? Part 4 of 4

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  In our previous blog, we described the first two subtypes of rapacious rescued partners. Here we describe the final two subtypes- the Rigid Perfectionist and the Self Centered. Please note that although we use feminine pronouns in our descriptions, rapacious partners are equally likely to be male. The Rigid ...
  4 days ago

• It’s a two-for-one deal on Yahoo! Shopping

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 144
  Whoa! How do you make two mistakes in a single word? If you write for Yahoo! Shopping , it’s pretty easy: Even if the writer had used the possessive pronoun its (instead of the contraction it’s ), the word would still be wrong. Why? Because the antecedent of the pronoun is jackets , a plural. The ...
  5 days ago

• What’s uglier than Uggs?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 144
  Could it be this description from Yahoo! Shopping ? The writer seems to be suffering from a bit of schizophrenia, unable to decide if Ugg is an acronym deserving all caps or a simple proper noun. Even more serious is the mismatched subject and verb and the weird use of the contraction it’s . Even changing ...
  6 days ago

• Writers who need to check themselves

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 144
  Writers should check for themselves that the words they use actually exist; otherwise, they could be creating a brand-new pronoun and error, like this one on Yahoo! omg! : Posted in Pronouns, Wrong words Tagged: funny writing errors, funny writing mistakes, pronoun, themselves, wrong word, Yahoo!, Yahoo! omg!
  6 days ago

• ‘Top Chef’ takes the cake

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 144
  This synopsis of tonight’s “Top Chef” on Yahoo! TV  takes the cake: Though there’s nothing grammatically wrong with using both remaining and left in the same sentence, one of them would have been sufficient. (When you’re writing for the short attention span of Web readers, fewer words are always ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remembering the Need for Accurate Reporting on Trans Stories

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Reporting around Tyli’a NaNa Boo Mack’s murder in August 2009 frequently misidentified her As we honor Transgender Day of Remembrance with a week of reflective and informative blogs, we must also pause to remember the power of the media to shape perceptions about transgender people and the need for fair and ...
  3 weeks ago

• NaNoWriMo RE: Multiple pronouns – how do you keep them straight? (Dialog Tags)

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  Multiple pronouns – how do you keep them straight?[quote=terraluft]Help! I constantly have several characters in the same place at the same time. How do you talk about two female characters using ’she’ without getting them all confused? I hate having to use their names or how they are related to my MC [...]
  3 weeks ago

• NaNoWriMo RE: Multiple pronouns - how do you keep them straight? (Dialog Tags)

  
  EK's Writing Blog — Authority: 132
  Multiple pronouns - how do you keep them straight? [quote=terraluft]Help! I constantly have several characters in the same place at the same time. How do you talk about two female characters using she without getting them all confused? I hate having to use their names or how they are related to my MC because it ...
  3 weeks ago

• The most neglected contraction

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 144
  It’s the most neglected contraction on Yahoo!. And it appears yet again on Yahoo! Shine  without its apostrophe: I can’t believe that a professional writer doesn’t know the difference between its and it’s , just as I can’t believe the writer thinks that prom is a proper noun: I’d rather ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grammatically impaired: A new protected class?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 144
  It must be a severe grammatical impairment that accounts for the errors by a writer for Yahoo! Shine : Maybe the grammatically impaired make up a new protected class, and Yahoo! has a legal obligation to make “reasonable accommodations” for the handicap. In this case, I’d recommend a competent ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Rescued: Rapacious Partners

  
  The White Knight Syndrome — Authority:
  Initially, the covertly predatory style of rapacious partners may lead you to believe that you have found paradise in their arms, but sooner or later you feel like a victim. Desperate for nurturing and security, the rapacious partner manipulates to get what she needs, at times, through being irresistibly seductive. ...
  4 weeks ago

• IN(TER)JECTIONS

  
  nixwilliams — Authority: 114
  ive talked before about how i like getting injections and having blood tests. theres something quite cyborgian and porous about either watching a foreign substance enter your muscle or seeing your warm blood filling a clear tube. it makes me feel like im physically connected to other places - where my blood goes to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Grammar Girl Helps with “Which” and “That”

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 557
  Confused by when to use “which” and when to use “that”? Here’s the transcript from the latest Grammar Girl podcast. Here’s a freebie for Greek and Latin students. If you understand the difference between the nominative case and the accusative and dative cases, then you know the difference between “who” ...
  5 weeks ago

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