by Marissa Metcalf | Nov 18, 2020 | AP Style Basics, GrammarSpot
All You Need to Know About Essential Clauses and Nonessential Clauses All You Need to Know About Essential Clauses and Nonessential Clauses Clauses are often called the building blocks of sentences, and like most building materials, they aren’t all created equal. Some...
by Marissa Metcalf | Nov 6, 2020 | Commonly Confused Words
Commonly Confused Words: Affect and Effect Do you want your writing to affect readers’ opinions or have some other effect? Do you find logical arguments or affective language more effective? Do the similar spellings and related meanings of affect vs effect make you...
by Marissa Metcalf | Nov 4, 2020 | AP Style Basics, GrammarSpot
A Primer on the AP Style Rule for Acronyms A Primer on the AP Style Rule for Acronyms If you write factual content or realistic fiction, it’s almost impossible to avoid working with acronyms. Between “alphabet soup” government agencies and absurdly named pieces of...
by Marissa Metcalf | Nov 4, 2020 | Writing Tips
The Rundown on Run-On Sentences Conjunctions and punctuation marks are probably two of the most under appreciated elements of a sentence. In my own writing, I always (well, usually) notice when I’ve left a key word or idea out of a sentence. However, I sometimes...
by Marissa Metcalf | Oct 10, 2020 | Commas
Your Complete Guide to Comma Rules If you’ve heard that joke about a panda bear entering a restaurant and eating, shooting, and leaving, you know that the difference between “eats, shoots and leaves” and “eats shoots and leaves” matters. This example is more...
