November has come to a close, and hundreds of thousands of aspiring novelists face a challenge—to edit and finish what they started. The Writer's Alley teamed up with Grammarly to give away a year of Grammarly Premium to help one lucky writer proofread their novel-to-be.
Grammarly is sharing some quick tips for all of us today as part of this great giveaway.
Understanding the Most Frequent Writing Mistakes
Grammarly provided the top five grammar and punctuation issues that often confuse writers. Check out these articles if you’d like to learn more.
Grammar:
1. Preposition
2. Conjunction
3. IE vs. EG
4. Appositive
Punctuation:
1. Semicolon
2. Oxford comma
3. Em dash
4. Hyphen
5. Parenthesis
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Leave a comment with one area of grammar you struggle to keep straight to enter for your chance to win :-)
10 comments:
Love this giveaway! Conjunctions are probably the most difficult for me to master. =)
This is something I definitely could use to help understand the proper use of colons/semicolons. Thanks for the opportunity to win a year of Grammarly Premium.
There is a comma rule (not the Oxford one)that occurs mid-sentence at times, and it always trips me up.
My biggest struggle is with commas, when to use them, when to leave them out. Other forms of punctuation such as semicolons are also a sticking point. And I seem to have a love of run-on sentences.
Oh I struggle with quite a few of them, but probably the em dash is the most difficult for me to get. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
I often struggle with my verb-tense shift. I find myself rereading graphs to be certain I am still in the same tense. There are a few obscure comma rules as well!
Lie, lay, lain, laid...no matter how many times I read the 'how to's', I can't keep them straight.
I struggle with comma placing. I hear a pause, so I put a comma. And it doesn't need one. Or vice versa.
I have the free version of Grammerly and it helps me out a lot. :)
Amber Schamel
visionwriter2 at gmail
Commas are the bane of my existence. I love them...too much :-)
Where to place commas especially in a conversation
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