Afterward Afterward is an adverb meaning at a later or succeeding time, subsequently, or thereafter. Afterward without an “-s” on the end is the US spelling ….
Assent refers to agreement, while an ascent is a climb. When you get people to agree with you, you gain their assent. When you climb ….
I often encounter phrases like “as time progressed” or “as the hours progressed” in submissions. You may be familiar with the idiom, “Time marches on.” ….
I recently judged an unpublished novel contest. I had an array of genres, but one thing that stood out consistently throughout all of them was a lack of realistic dialogue.
Arrant means being notoriously without moderation or extreme. Arrant was originally a variant of errant, but it developed a meaning of its own before any ….
Addition and edition may occasionally come dangerously close together in meaning. Which is the correct word in the following sentence? On this special bonus [addition ….
Add conventionally functions as an abbreviation of the word addition. Otherwise, by itself, add is a verb meaning either to calculate the total of multiple ….
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A List of Gluey Sticky Words “Omit needless words” — William Strunk, The Elements of Style Strunk & White’s advice is simple. Find words with ….
Dear Weeping Editor, I went to a writers’ conference a few years back and the repeating theme was never to use the word “feel” in ….