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They (not the movie)
Consider the following sentence:
A person who does not read this blog regularly may find that ____ grammar suffers.
Now fill in the blank with the appropriate pronoun. If youâre of a certain age, youâll unflinchingly fill the blank with âhis.â If you lean leftish sociopolitically, youâre more likely to provide âherâ (or to alternate between âhisâ and âherâ when using such sentences). If the thought of filling in that blank fills you with uncertainty or even dread, maybe youâd supply âtheir,â which makes the grammar nerds squirm. Continue reading
Showing vs. Telling
Lies Your English Teacher Told You
College English Tutor Lisa Muzaffar Kusko writes:
Since writing properly is, here at MonstaPro, dear to our hearts (and it’s created a small storm in its comments section) we’d thought we’d share!
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Publishing and Coping With Rejection
Here at MonstaPro, we like to think we know a thing or two about writing; particularly what it takes to get some words down in the right order.
This is why we feel that, when other like-minded souls scribble a few things in order to help that situation, we’d like to spread the word in order to help the general populace. We’re nice like that. Continue reading