By Lauren Kessler, Duncan McDonald
ISBN-10: 0495050253
ISBN-13: 9780495050254
Kessler and McDonald's while phrases COLLIDE is praised by means of scholars for its basic and clear-almost conversational-presentation of grammar. this flexible grammar and utilization instruction manual will be just right for you as a starting scholar and as you proceed as a media author. It presents concise, transparent causes and examples, in addition to quickly and exact solutions to grammar or utilization questions. the original 'from author to author' point of view publications you thru the writing technique.
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Extra info for When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar and Style, 7th Edition (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism)
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His or her. A writer also has the option of using the plural throughout, changing anybody to people. 3. Relative and interrogative pronouns. Pronouns such as that, which and who are easy to recognize, but they can be difficult to use properly. Examine the next four sentences and note the correct choices (underlined): Who/Whom did the police arrest? She is the type of leader that/who commands unwavering loyalty. The aircraft carrier Stennis, that/which is now heading toward the Persian Gulf, is an intimidating spectacle.
If you see unfamiliar grammatical terms in this chapter, don’t panic. You will be reading about all kinds of sentences: simple, compound, complex, compound–complex, incomplete, run-on, subordinated, oversubordinated, passive voice. Don’t be put off by these descriptors, and don’t obsess about them, either. Just think of them as shorthand or code. They are a useful way to explain and categorize word patterns. But that’s not the goal of learning these terms. The goal, as always, is good writing—learning to put words together with clarity, precision and pizzazz.
Certain words, called absolutes, defy comparisons. Unique, an absolute, is already a superlative. ) It suffices to say: This is a unique piece of art. There’s more on this issue in the context of clarity and conciseness in Chapter 10. PREPOSITIONS Prepositions are the quiet overachievers of sentence construction, and theirs is an important existence. Prepositions work with nouns and pronouns to create phrases and to link these phrases to the rest of a sentence, as in this construction of two prepositional phrases: The judge sentenced Thompson to the Wycliffe State Penitentiary for the rest of his natural life.
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