Using Nouns of Direct Address
drupagliassotti @ March 28, 2008 # 2 Comments
One disagreement I occasionally face with my writers is how to capitalize and punctuate nouns of direct address. Here’s everything you need to know about these nouns in a few easy paragraphs:
“Now, wait a minute, Son. You don’t want to fly off the handle like that.”
“Say, Professor, when’s our assignment due?”
“Aw, Dad! Cut it out!”
“Hey, […]
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Verb Tenses: Simple Past vs. Past Perfect
drupagliassotti @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Why do American writers have such difficulty grasping the difference between tenses? I can only imagine that it’s the collective-cultural result of our being traumatized by hellishly pedantic high-school English grammar teachers who forced us to diagram sentences, a pastime I thoroughly detested as a teenager but have started to believe may have deserved closer […]
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