Z5-+Grammar+Girl

**Run on sentences are is a really long sentence. Independent clauses are are put together. They can be very short. Don't start a sentence with a lower case letter or with a comma. Irregardless is a bad word that you should not use.** **5/24/11 ** **Active voice vs. passive voice. There is a difference between active and passive voice. Many people believe you should avoid passive voice but many don’t. Active voice is the thing that’s doing the action. Impassive voice is the target of the passage. Passive voice is referring to what you are talking about. Passive voice is usually not used a lot in a typical conversation. **
 * 2/17/11**
 * Rhetorical Questions are things that when you write things that don't make sense but then you realize it is.So the sentence Isn't she funny you should not use it in real life writing and talking. Tag Questions are things that you say but not wrote is a little bit of a different situation.**
 * 2/21/11**
 * Troublesome Contractions are contractions that are mislead like the word is. I'm, She'll, and O'clock are some of the most frequent ones. Some things are a lot easier to just spell out than rather than put in a contraction. Had and would are also ones that are mislead. A contractions mainly always used with an apostrophe. It might sound better when speaking than instead of writing it out.**
 * 2/28/11**
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 * Dashes are and colons are similar things. The colon informs the reader that something more is coming along. The words after the colon define or clarify what came before the colon. A dash is quit a dramatic thing. Don't use dashes when you should use dashes.**
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 * This Grammar Girl is asking about if you should use the word for at the beginning of a sentence. Some people think you should use the word for at the beginning of a sentence. Others disagree. Trying to use the word for in the place of the word because. So a lot of people think you should be able to use the word for.**
 * 4/11/11**
 * This Grammar Girl is about the words all right, all together, and all ready. all ready is two words and is also one word. All right is the one that is two words that can't be combined into one word. The words all and right can be combined to make the word alright. All these words can be easily confused all the time but if you just break it down it's easier. All together can be written as one word or two words also.**
 * 4/18/11**
 * When you try to capitalize nouns you have to pay close attention close. Boy and girl are nouns so they don't need to be capitalized. Internet does need to be capitalized but website doesn't need to be capitalized. Proper nouns most of the time should be capitalized while nouns should not be. Depression some times can be a Proper noun and can be a noun. The planets always are capitalized. Earth can sometimes not be capitalized. Some languages are all capitalized but not all.**
 * 4/19/11**
 * April is national poetry month. When you are describing some people you say that they are taking poetic licenses. You think that you are cutting them some slack. Sometimes you might see a poetic license you might say that using unusual words or unusual use of words. Sometimes the words are kind of confusing a lot and should you cut the same slack for song writers? Well yes you should cut them some slack just as well as poetics.**
 * 4/25/11**
 * Bizarre questions are asked. Compliments like in the sentence the 2 girls ate a sandwich. Are both eating the same sandwich or are they both eating their own sandwich. They taught school in which school a single compliment. The writers complained that their neck was sore. That sentence should be obvious. You could write that the writers both complained that their necks were sore**
 * 5/9/11**
 * The difference between further and farther. Father for physical distance and further for figurative distance. Farther has the word far in it and far has that description in it. When you are physically farther away from something or someone you would use farther. When you use further you are describing something that is not physically not far away. You should always pay attention when to use the word farther or using the word further. You can also use the word further more instead of using the word further.**
 * 5/9/11**