Hi,
For a story I am writing I need some help with English grammar, or better with abbreviations.
If you would write:
You would - is the abbreviation you'd?
We have - is the abbreviation we've?
Is there a link to a site with English grammar?
It's been 25 years since I studies English grammar, so I don't know any more.
Help needed with English grammar
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Help needed with English grammar
Love is a verb.
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Re: Help needed with English grammar
Contractions are optional. Some writers don't use them much. They do make dialogue more believable, though, and not using them can indicate a character's state of mind. I'm not familiar with any specific English grammar website, but if you do a search I'm sure you can find something useful. My main recommendation would be for you to have a native speaker beta your work. Dialogue especially is difficult to do well without knowledge of the way native speakers talk. This is done by ear and experience usually, and isn't something you can get from a website.
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Re: Help needed with English grammar
panyasan wrote:It's been 25 years since I studies English grammar, so I don't know any more.
Evidently.
I'd say you've got the abbreviations correct for colloquial English, for what it's worth.
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Re: Help needed with English grammar
Here's a basic list:
http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/Eng ... ctions.htm
Funny, I was going over these with my son this evening. I couldn't remember what a 'd (like he'd) really stood for.
I think I told him the wrong thing
http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/Eng ... ctions.htm
Funny, I was going over these with my son this evening. I couldn't remember what a 'd (like he'd) really stood for.
I think I told him the wrong thing
Re: Help needed with English grammar
But...but... I wrote this post in a hurry. Note to self: "never write a post in a hurry".Cogito wrote:panyasan wrote:It's been 25 years since I studies English grammar, so I don't know any more.
Evidently.
Thanks for the help everyone!
Love is a verb.
Chapter 17 of Word of Ice is up!
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8522099/17/World-of-Ice
The Naked Truth and other necessities of life
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12056258/1 ... es-of-life
Chapter 17 of Word of Ice is up!
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8522099/17/World-of-Ice
The Naked Truth and other necessities of life
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12056258/1 ... es-of-life
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Re: Help needed with English grammar
Here are two sites I recommend to my students if they need extra help with something in grammar/usage:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
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http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
Grammar Girl is also good at explaining this stuff in plain English. (Just google it.)
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
and
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
Grammar Girl is also good at explaining this stuff in plain English. (Just google it.)
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Re: Help needed with English grammar
putaro wrote:I couldn't remember what a 'd (like he'd) really stood for.
It could stand for "he had" or "he would".
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