“Hey! Mr. Element, Are You Essential to that Sentence?”

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For this post, I’m going to concentrate on a comma issue that can cause problems for writers. The rule I’m speaking of is the one that states nonessential elements should be separated from the rest of the sentence with commas before and after the element in question. Unlike most other comma issues, this one involves [...]

The Tense Monster

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In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to start concentrating on issues that I’ve run into while editing. I think the one that I should start with is…the evil Tense Monster. This is, without question, the one issue that I deal with more on a daily basis than any other. The majority of the [...]

Making the Big Move

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Well, it’s all over… and just beginning. Last week, while D.D. Scott was stepping in to post in my time slot here on the WG2E (thanks again D.D.), I was loading and driving a U-Haul truck 1,000+ miles from Boston to Midwestern cattle country. So now, instead of sirens, I hear tree frogs, crickets and [...]