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Vampire bats, whether they drink blood or not, often go hungry the sentence posits. For a more detailed breakdown of the rules, you might be interested in heading over here. Very useful, thanks. Like Like. Once, I had a laughter when I understood the topic is grammatically written, not witch-ly. I also find many great tips in the link that u recommend above. Thanks so much.

Excellent topic. I know exactly what your saying. In many cases, the so-called American usage is actually correct, mainly because it WAS correct British usage until the British education system completely mashed things up back in the s. But I would have to wonder what kind of writer you had to deal with who never heard this rule.

Oh wow. Very useful information. I might have to change a few things in my manuscript as well…. I find my writing is most improved when I omit the use of both which and that — in MOST cases there is a better way to structure the sentence. I am so fueled by proper grammar in writing. Thank you for this lesson. I am often searching the web for similar little lessons to remind me of some of the rules. I will definitely share with my kids and others and on my post.

I guess I will remain ignorant on which vs. I am not going on a witch hunt but I might hunt for candy the kids have then again which candy do I like very confusing. Written by Susan Oliver. After the dumbest story of the year so far about adjectives , I now have for you, if you can bear it, the dumbest story of the year so far about adverbs. It is also the story of the dumbest piece of hard work in the software field I have seen for some time.

Gina Trapani has kindly written for us all, and made available for free, a little script that will yellow-highlight all words ending in -ly in your Firefox browser window. The idea is that those who publish on the web can use this feature to hunt for adverbs and then alter their posts to obey E. White's absurd dictum from the fifth chapter that he added to William Strunk's The Elements of Style in the s that you should "Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs.

Strunk and White were a pair of hypocritical old grousers whose inaccurate grammar and usage edicts dated not from the last century but the one before that. Yet people not only treat them as if their words came from God and had been chiseled into granite slabs during an encounter up a mountain; they also fail to read those words to see if the old fools practice what they preach. Of course they don't. Post a comment ». Add a reference: Book Author.

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