Unlocking the power of parallel grammarWe all love patterns, in our fashion, art and architecture, and even our writing. One form of literary pattern is parallel grammar, which...
How to avoid dangling modifiersWhile doing push-ups on the beach, the sun shone brightly. The above sentence may seem okay at first glance, but it contains a dangling m...
She, he or they? What to write when someone's sex is unknownThe English language contains some throwbacks to times that were, well, less inclusive. Probably chief among them is the use of ‘he’ as a...
Shakespeare had some help: editing and the myth of the solitary genius writerA writer friend who’d begun teaching her craft at a university once advised me that, with my experience, I could teach ‘editing’, pronoun...