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Shakespeares use of animal imagery - William Shakespeare - Helium - by Pablothehat

By Pablothehat 428 days ago from http://www.helium.com

An exploration into Shakespeare's use of imagery to help build character and plot. In this soliloquy from Othello, Shakespeare uses imagery to show Iago's true nature along with the structure and content of the dialogue, punctuation, enjambment, c

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Grammar Girl ! Quick & Dirty Tips

By Pablothehat 358 days ago from http://thetaoofblog-pablothehat.blogspot.com

One of my fave resources.

From Grammar Girl's site
Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar

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Jose Saramago's Curious Style

By timsullivan 347 days ago from http://www.sullivanwords.com

While on Christmas vacation I read The Stone Raft, my first encounter with the unusual style of Jose Saramago, the Portuguese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. The stone raft of the title refers to the Iberian peninsula, which is set adrift in the Atlantic Ocean after the Pyrenees mountains split down the

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Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb

By jclark88 344 days ago from http://www.copyblogger.com

There's been a lot of talk on BloggingZoom lately concerning grammar and grammatical errors in certain postings and such (not naming any names - lol) so I thought it would be nice if we all took a moment to read up on a few things that are VERY common mistakes when it comes to grammar.  Before we criticize others we sh

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Punctuation Clarified with Humor in Eats, Shoots & Leaves

By carlajc 304 days ago from http://wordplayblog.com

If you're a fan of a zero tolerance approach to bad punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves is the book for you.

Presented with wit and style, Eats, Shoots & Leaves author Lynn Truss helps us understand how punctuation should -- and shouldn't -- be used. She gives hilarious examples of how otherwise well-meaning shopkeepers an

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Few dating tips for men that will get you going in the right direction.

By datmentips4 107 days ago from http://datingtipsformens.blogspot.com

Online dating tips for men often include the need to punch up your profile a bit, checking cliché phrases and misspellings at the door. While proper grammar, spelling and punctuation are more for the freshman comp class, many online dating tips for men state that women are put off by poor grammar and misspellings as it signals

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