Whether it is a group of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, or insects there is usually a unique collective noun to identify the specific group, although ….
Allowed is the past tense of the verb allow, meaning to permit, to let happen, to permit entrance, or to acknowledge the truth or acceptability ….
To amend is to change for the better, to put right, or to alter by adding. The word’s corresponding noun is amendment. Amend is the ….
There is a way to come out of that isolation and find yourself among people who think like you, who talk to non-existent people in their heads, who also spend hours a day/week/month pounding at a keyboard, praying fervently that the words they type will mean something to the readers who consume them.
Attend a writers event.
The expression “as such” must refer to some status—an antecedent noun or noun phrase—mentioned earlier. The CMOS explains it like this (emphasis mine): Literature and ….
And so it was, whenever the spirit from God was upon Saul, that David would take a harp and play it with his hand. Then ….
The word apart is either an adverb or an adjective. As an adverb, apart can mean separate, a little distance, excluded from consideration, or away ….
Apostrophe is a big word for a little jot. These little jots can turn the most fearless writer’s hair white with fear, but they’re not ….
Dear Weeping Editor, In a lot of novels I’ve read recently, many modern authors have apparently come down with a case of anosmia. I never ….