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Sticking Around for a While | A Potpourri of Prose
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A Potpourri of Prose. Floral scent sold separately. About the Victorian Rose. Sticking Around for a While. July 18, 2009. The Sims™ is an amazing empire. The second game has, so far, a total of eight expansion packs (University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, and Apartment Life) and eight major stuff packs (Family Fun Stuff, Glamour Life Stuff, Celebration! Going to go down! Right now, I’m working on a brand-new family. Perhaps I’ll look up some gamepl...Won't somebod...
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Dashes and Hyphens: What’s the Difference? | Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style
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Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style. Tips for beginning and intermediate writers who want to make a good impression. Laquo; Just an Aside. Dashes and Hyphens: What’s the Difference? October 2, 2009 by Victoria Rose. There are subtle but important differences between dashes and hyphens. I’d like to address this issue here. Because their functions are quite different, and because neither have spaces between them and words *. Examples of dashes *. What were you expecting? Some people are findin...
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Mission Statement | Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style
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Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style. Tips for beginning and intermediate writers who want to make a good impression. Many word processing programs today come with spelling checkers and even grammar checkers, but let’s face it: These applications are stupid. Spelling checkers simply compare the words you type against a list. That’s all. They don’t know about context or usage. They only makes sure what you’ve written is. Word, not that it’s the. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Notify me of new com...
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Victoria Rose | Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style
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Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style. Tips for beginning and intermediate writers who want to make a good impression. Https:/ pugss.wordpress.com/. I'm a recovering student from southeast Michigan with an unhealthy fondness for alliteration and assonance. I can type 65 words per minute and spot a misused punctuation mark from 20 paces. I want to invent my own language. Posts by Victoria Rose:. October 9, 2009. October 2, 2009. Dashes and Hyphens: What’s the Difference? September 25, 2009.
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Could, Would, Should | Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style
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Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style. Tips for beginning and intermediate writers who want to make a good impression. Laquo; Of “its,” “it’s,” and (ugh) “its’.”. Multiple Counts of Possession. Could, Would, Should. September 12, 2009 by Victoria Rose. Complete these phrases: I could done it, I would done it, I should done it. Correcting grammar is just something I do. What was that crazy little dance she just did. I fear I have done. They did not know what they had done. If you have done.
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Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style | Tips for beginning and intermediate writers who want to make a good impression. | Page 2
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Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style. Tips for beginning and intermediate writers who want to make a good impression. Aye, me. Is it “I” or “me”? August 22, 2009 by Victoria Rose. Continue Reading ». Spelling Saved my Computer. August 14, 2009 by Victoria Rose. Don’t you hate it when you’re merrily working away on your PC, and suddenly something crashes? The reboot and the error report dialogue can be a real headache. Continue Reading ». What’s a Grammatical Case and Why Should I Care? I thin...
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On Being Selfish | Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style
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Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, Spelling, and Style. Tips for beginning and intermediate writers who want to make a good impression. Laquo; Aye, me. Is it “I” or “me”? Of “its,” “it’s,” and (ugh) “its’.”. August 28, 2009 by Victoria Rose. Last week, I talked briefly on the topic of “I” vs. “me.” Now I’d like to turn slightly and discuss another topic of some importance: “myself.”. Any pronoun that ends with “-self” or any word prefixed with “self-” is what’s known as reflexive. Did it to yourself. Reflexive...
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We Now Return to the Regularly Scheduled Blog, Already in Progress | A Potpourri of Prose
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A Potpourri of Prose. Floral scent sold separately. About the Victorian Rose. We Now Return to the Regularly Scheduled Blog, Already in Progress. June 19, 2009. The downtime did give me the opportunity to think about this blog and what I’ve been doing with it. I’m not really sure whether any change will result from this, but food for thought is always a good thing. After all, if you don’t feed your thoughts, they tend to die! Til next time, happy reading! From → writing. Larr; Bad Sci-Fi, No Cookie!
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Book Review: The Speed of Dark | A Potpourri of Prose
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A Potpourri of Prose. Floral scent sold separately. About the Victorian Rose. Book Review: The Speed of Dark. July 4, 2009. One important rule of good story writing is to provide just enough description and detail. When there’s not enough, the picture painted for the reader is vague, blurry, ambiguous, and splotchy. When there’s too much, the reader gets bogged down and can lose sight of the story. The Speed of Dark. The Speed of Dark. Is the love child of. Also known as Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome). Thu...
