Seeing the Action: The Three Aspects of Verbs Tuesday, December 15 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. CT What is the difference between I read, I am reading, and I do read? Good writers remember that they can control how their readers see and react to the ideas they’re writing about. One grammatical device that shapes the …
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Upcoming Seminar
The Passive Voice: When and When Not to Use It Tuesday, December 8 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. CT Who’s doing what seems to be an almost irresistible attraction for us. Good writers know this, and they prefer sentences that show the subject acting rather than being acted upon—what is known in grammar as the active …
Upcoming Seminar
Questions and Answers Tuesday, November 24 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. CT Writing Smartly’s next seminar, Questions and Answers, will address your questions about grammar, punctuation, and sentence construction—any question about writing that has been perplexing you and about which you can’t easily find an answer. Who or whom? Semicolons? Tenses? Which or that? Passive voice? …
Upcoming Seminars and a Short Course
Independent and Subordinate Clauses Tuesday, November 10 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. There are really only two ways to present a number of thoughts in one sentence: we can either lay them side by side, showing how one is just as important as another; or we can tag one particular thought to show how it depends …
Upcoming Seminars
and a Short Course
Simple and Compound Subjects Tuesday, November 3 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Every sentence we write addresses a subject we want to say something about, and it’s not uncommon for our sentences to involve two or more subjects at the same time. Simple sentences make a statement about only one thing; compound sentences say something about …