The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles...
It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net
The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?
Youir're doing this wrong.
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
Stupid English.""English isn't stupid," I say."Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won'...