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Wednesday Words: Anal, Annal, Annual
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · In a crossword puzzle this morning, I wanted to use annual, but it wouldn’t fit. Then I remembered annal, which fit both the definition and the five letters available. · Best guess is that many writers don’t know the word “annal,” so it’s worth highlighting it here, along with tw ...
Wednesday Words: Are You Guilty of Using Too Many Adverbs?
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · All parts of speech have their uses; together they allow us to write complete sentences and thoughts. We need adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs (for more on these and their definitions, click here) to work together in harmo ...
Tuesday Tricksters: Naval -- New
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · With all the possibile things to write about, sometimes I forget to put out a regular Tuesday Tricksters or Wednesday Words post! · So, here are a few more difficult-to-remember words, because they sound alike (or nearly so, anway), but don’t mean the same thing and are spelled d ...
Wednesday Words: Anybody, Anyone, Somebody, Someone
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · One of my LI connections (Ranjith Abraham) sent me this note: “I was reading an article and came across inconsistent usage of ‘anybody,’ ‘somebody,’ ‘anyone,’ ‘someone.’ Would you please address the differences (if any) among them?” · What Ranjith noticed was that some of the wor ...
Wednesday Words: Active and Passive Voice Explained -- Finally!
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · A reader wrote and asked if I would explain Active and Passive voice, because she has been using an electronic grammar checker and it keeps saying she should use MORE passive sentences. · Um. No. Don’t. Please. · She wasn’t completely sure what it meant, although she’s heard the ...
Wednesday Words: Are You "Shoulding" All Over Everyone?
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · I am republishing this post that I originally created in October 2015 thanks to a post I read that Edward Lewellen just wrote (and that Sarah Elkins tagged me in). · ***** · Language is meant to help us humans communicate, but sometimes even with our best efforts, we end up with ...
Wednesday Words: More Cross Words From a Cruciverbalist*
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Yup, it's back -- the Wednesday Words compilation of words in crossword puzzles that I had to look up once I figured out the answers. There's nothing quite so humbling as realizing that I can put the correct letters in and still not be sure I actually got the right word -- becaus ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: A Logophile's or Cruciverbalist's Challenge
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Many of my readers know I love crossword puzzles; I eagerly wait each week for the Sunday Boston Globe newspaper with its magazine tucked inside to see what's in store for me. · Last year -- yes, 2016 -- one of the magazine's top articles concerned home makeovers, so I kept it a ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: One Real (But Not Accepted) and Two Not Even Real
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Questions arise constantly about words -- which to use, which to never use, and why. · In my Brush Up on Your American Grammar workshops, I refer to some words as not accepted or not standard, meaning they are in dictionaries but are not considered proper English (at least not y ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: One word or two?
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · English is a weird language. I can't speak for any other one, but we often have words with the same letters in them, but sometimes the words are really two separate words and sometimes they're just one solid word. · As a basic rule of thumb, if you're using words like those shown ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: A Productivity Killer
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Funny. When we were kids, most of us heard and maybe said, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” You remember that, right? · Then we grew up, and most of us learned that words do matter. Words have power. Words set the framework for how we feel, w ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: "A" for Effort!
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Frequent readers of my blogs know that each Tuesday I publish a "Tuesday Tricksters" list of miserable words – known as homophones (words that sound the same, or nearly so) – because they're so easy to misuse. · Yesterday, one of my readers (Asesh Datta) asked if I could just rem ...
Wednesday Words: Everyday and Every Day
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · I highlight words on Wednesdays that are often misused and confused by writers everywhere. English is a tough language, so Wednesdays are my day to focus on just a pair or triplet to make the words stand out from a crowd. · Nearly every day, I see writers who confuse "everyday" a ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Anagrams
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Did you ever play anagrams when you were a kid? You know, rearranging letters in a word to make another one? They were lots of fun -- for some of us, anyway -- and they did teach an important lesson: read what you've written. Words can be tricky. · I think some of us writers are ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Fun With Jeopardy!
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · I love this show. I really, really LOVE this show! I don't know if it's shown anywhere except the U.S., but I hope it is. · The premise of the show is that the contestants (and everyone watching) are given the answers, and they have to come up with the question. Seems simple, but ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: More "Cross" Words
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Longtime readers of my posts know that I love words, and I love crossword puzzles. But I have to say, sometimes I wonder how or why a certain word got used in one of the puzzles. · Sometimes I've never seen or even imagined the word that is the answer; other times, I haven't kno ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Words that DO Exist!
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · It is way too hot to think heavy thoughts here in the Northeast part of the U.S. We are sweltering under extremely high temps and humidity. So for today's post, I pulled a page out of my American Grammar long program -- a fun one. · I created this six-hour program about ten years ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Incidence and Incidents
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Today's edition of Wednesday Words & Woes was suggested by Sarah Elkins, and they're words that are indeed often confused. Let's see if this post helps! · These words are true homophones, words that sound the same (or nearly so) but are spelled differently and have different mean ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: To, Too, Two -- By Special Request
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · I originally posted this on May 18, 2016, on LInkedIn in response to some readers' questions. But I wasn't posting here on beBee then, and it seems like a good one for many writers. · ***************** · Sometimes I get lucky and a bunch of readers ask for help on the same homoph ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: More Words I Never Knew Existed
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Living in eastern Massachusetts, USA, I (along with thousands of others) read The Boston Globe newspaper and its magazine section every Sunday. There is always at least one interesting--sometimes really tough--crossword puzzle to solve, and sometimes I don't even know the word ...
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