Sunday, February 16, 2014

How to improve your written and spoken English by really trying

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Here’s a question sent to my Personal Messages box by Ian T., new Forum member, last February 7, 2014: Hi! Mr. Joe Carillo,   I am a te...
Monday, February 3, 2014

So which do we use: a gerund, a full infinitive, or a bare infinitive?

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For many nonnative speakers or learners of English, it’s difficult enough deciding whether to use a gerund or an infinitive for certain sen...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Good communicators hone the use of indirect questions to a fine art

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In polite society, how we frame our questions has a decisive bearing on the kind and quality of response we’ll get. This is why when in unf...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

The great importance of parallel construction in presenting ideas

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Apart from the usefulness of the information or the power of the ideas being presented, what distinguishes good writing from insipid, so-so...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Time to get a more solid grasp of the usage of “that” and “which”

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Does the choice between “that” and “which” to link relative clauses still make your head spin? Try this one: “The charming beach resort (th...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent

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It’s never too late to pursue writing as a vocation if one belatedly discovers having the talent and the great reserves of energy to do it....
Sunday, October 6, 2013

How to bring compositions to a proper, satisfying close

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The following question was raised by a reader after I posted a four-part essay entitled “Basic and advanced techniques for doing paragraph ...