The rarely used verb beggar means to reduce to poverty, or the practice of asking for charity. You beggar people by impoverishing them, thus reducing ….
Dear Weeping Editor, I am one of those writers that… makes you cry sometimes. Lately I’ve struggled with ellipsis… or ellipses… however it’s spelled. I ….
Does the English language really need both “began” and “begun”? Wouldn’t it be simpler to just have one past tense version of “begin”? Alas, nobody ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) Beef in terms of meat is a mass noun. It has no plural form. beef: the flesh of adult cattle ….
Grammar teachers across these United States of America, please don’t hate me. I’m about to expose a fallacy you’ve taught as truth for years. (Ahem) ….
I write Christian romantic suspense, so inside that genre, I need to have a faith arc, a romantic arc, and a suspense arc. Each of those arcs require internal and external conflicts, motivations, and different characterizations.
When I’m setting up and getting ready to plot a book, the first thing (other than my characters) that I need to know are what those conflicts and motivations are, and how they’re going to be resolved/utilized.
Bazaar and bizarre might sound alike but a bazaar is a market and bizarre describes something really strange or kooky. I suppose there could be ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of basis is bases. basis: the bottom of something considered as its foundation: something on which something else ….
You can build a structure around a center, but bases go on the bottom of things, so you can’t base something around something else. Ask ….
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“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ~Babe Ruth