Tag: writing
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Grammar: Is “How to” a Correct Way to Begin a Question?
It’s all over the internet, and it’s usually wrong. You’ve seen the titles, headers, and subheaders starting with “How to” and ending with a question mark, and if they don’t make you squirm, they ought to. Examples of this grammatical aberration could include: How to train a dog? How to improve your sales figures? How…
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Passive Voice is Not Wrong
If you’re a writer, you may have been confronted with an instruction that you should never use passive voice. As for software like Grammarly, it goes after passive voice like a ferret after a rodent. What is passive voice? Is it wrong? Let’s take a look! In passive voice, the subject is acted on by…
Andrea Durrheim 