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Did You Grow Up with These Writing Rules?

December 19, 2017 by Barbara McNichol 1 Comment

10 Myths about English Writing (Infographic)
Source: www.grammarcheck.net

Filed Under: Book Writing Tagged With: better writing, correct use of words, grammar teaching, nonfiction book editor, professional business book editing, writing myths, writing rules

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  1. Bob Kelly says

    December 20, 2017 at 10:39 am

    Among my all-time favorite writers was Jack Smith, long-time LA Times columnist who died in 1996. His columns were always must-reads for me, and I still remember one of them, about ending a sentence with a preposition. Illustrating his approval of the practice, he cited the following question/comment by a young bedridden boy to his father: “Why did you bring the book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?” – noting it ended not merely with one preposition, but with five.

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