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		<title>Your or you&#8217;re?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common problems in the English language is the use of contractions. They are supposed to make life a little easier, but it seems that they don&#8217;t do much more than confuse. The case of your vs. you&#8217;re is a classic example.
I have said that the easiest way for me to remember [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=334&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Its or It&#8217;s?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between &#8220;its&#8221; and &#8220;it&#8217;s&#8221; is very important, but it can be hard to remember. Luckily for you, this diction problem is a pet peeve of mine. If you still have a question when you&#8217;re finished reading this post, I need to find a new hobby.  
&#8220;It&#8221; is an impersonal pronoun for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=332&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When to use a colon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The colon is a very useful punctuation mark. It most often is used to replace the word &#8220;because.&#8221; In technical terms, the colon is used between independent clauses when the second is an explanation for the first. (A clause is a group of words that belong together; an independent clause is a group of words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=304&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When to use a semicolon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The semicolon should be one of the strongest punctuation marks in the English language. It may just be my Grammarian Opinion, of course, but I think the semicolon is the least understood mark of all. What is the purpose of this cool little sign? When is it needed and when is it in the way? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=302&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Reason is Because</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;reason&#8221; has fallen victim to redundancy. When we say &#8220;the reason is&#8221; we are about to state the cause of something, right? When we start the explanation with &#8220;because,&#8221; we&#8217;re doing the same thing. In fact, Merriam Webster uses the word &#8220;reason&#8221; to define &#8220;because.&#8221; So why do we often start our explanations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=262&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;And me&#8221; or &#8220;and I&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re making a list of people in a sentence, and you want to include yourself, do you say &#8220;and I&#8221; or &#8220;and me&#8221;? It depends. Here&#8217;s the easy way to figure it out: drop the other people.
Example
Sounds Bad: My husband&#8217;s favorite cooks are: Rachael Rae, Chef Ramsay, Paula Dean and I.
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		<title>Prepositions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prepositions are little words that show the relation of two words. They&#8217;re the links in the chain-link fence. Example: When we go to Granny&#8217;s house, we go over the river and through the woods. But when we go home again, we go along the river and around the woods.
The English language sports well over 100 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=178&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;i and e&#8221; rule</title>
		<link>http://mywritinghelp.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/the-i-and-e-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8221; before &#8220;E,&#8221; except after &#8220;C,&#8221; and when sounding like &#8220;A,&#8221; as in &#8220;neighbor&#8221; and &#8220;weigh.&#8221;
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		<title>The Basic Grammar Terms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we Grammarians speak a language all our own. Here is a quick translation for the most common terms:
noun: person, place or thing (sister, Sydney, plane)
verb: an action word (flew, visited, toured)
pronoun: a replacement for a noun (he, she, it)
adjective: a word that describes a noun (blond, hot, stuffy)
adverb: a word that describes a verb [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=150&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ending Punctuation and Quotation Marks</title>
		<link>http://mywritinghelp.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/ending-punctuation-and-quotation-marks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using ending punctuation with quotation marks can be very confusing. It can also be easily explained. There are four possible ending marks you can use with punctuation: the period, the ellipsis, the question mark, and the exclamation point. The first two ALWAYS go inside quotation marks. The last two SOMETIMES go inside quotation marks. Let [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mywritinghelp.wordpress.com&blog=4407658&post=127&subd=mywritinghelp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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