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Category: Grammar

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English is Weird! {Episode 1}

August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 Jana Miller

What do siblings have to do with commas? And what do jeans have to do with hyphens?

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dialogue, Grammar, Self Edits, Uncategorized

You Can’t Shrug a Line

August 22, 2017 Jana Miller

Which words can be used as dialogue tags?

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Grammar, Uncategorized

Leaving the Past in the Past Perfect

April 24, 2017April 24, 2017 Jana Miller

Is it "did" or "had done?" How to go back further in the past in writing.

Tagged flashbacks, past, past perfect, tense1 Comment

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