24 Sep 09 5 More Ways to Improve Your Writing Part-V
Grammar is your friend, not an enemy. Respect it as you would respect your friends. A proper use of grammar and punctuation rules will make your writing beautiful, and easy to understand. Having said that, I must say that I am not a strict grammarian, so I believe you can tamper with the grammar at times, but to that first you need a good command over it. You guessed it write, if you did, this post is about grammar.
Write declarative sentences
These kinds of sentences make your writing forceful. You do not crawl, dictate or order. You just say what it is in a natural way. You do not intimidate people, you just say your things and let people think based on that. There is no offensive or defensive stance on either side.
Use Active voice
The prize for blogging was won Jack.
Or
Jack won the prize for blogging.
Which one of the two sounds more powerful? Indeed, it is the second one. When you use active voice, you make your subject do the work, but if you resort to passive voice, you ask your subject to lie down on a couch and let the object of his action do the work.
Check adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives can be alright, but adverb is strict no-no. The excess of any of these two will make your text look boring, very badly boring. Did you see that boring was okay but very badly boring was not?
Cut it
Are you not sure whether it should be there or not? Cut it! William Strunk Jr. will love you for that. Did you ask who is he? Well, you need to read The Elements of Style and ask countless English writing people to know who he was, meanwhile, just follow the advice and leave it when in doubt.
No clunky sentences, please
If you cannot create a sentence that reflects grace than do not attempt to create one! Well, did I sound like William Strunk Jr.? Then I succeed. Jokes apart; I mean to say that you should avoid creating any clunky or confusing sentences. To find out if your sentence is confusing or not, make your friend read your piece.
Tags: Active Voice, Adjectives And Adverbs, Adverb, Beautiful, Confusing Sentences, Couch, Declarative Sentences, Defensive Stance, Elements Of Style, English Writing, Friends, Grammar And Punctuation, Grammar And Punctuation Rules, Grammarian, Jokes, Kinds Of Sentences, Passive Voice, Two Sounds, When In Doubt, William Strunk Jr
Leave a Comment
Gossimer Press Releases
- Gossimer Offers Unlimited E-mails for $1
Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name and webhosting company, has announced a no-upgrade “The Ultimate Email Plan” that will give the buyer an access to unlimited email accounts for just $1/month. [PR.com - September 28, 2009] […]
- Gossimer’s Expands to Reach Florida
The news is on the air that Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration company, is shifting its base to Melbourne, Florida from the first of October. [PR.com - September 27, 2009] […]
- Gossimer Offers the Cheapest .Com Extension
Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration company, is going to offer low-cost off-the-shelf .com domains at an unbeatable price for the month of October. [PR.com - September 24, 2009] […]
- Build Your Sales Page with Gossimer’s Cheap Website Builder
Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration company, is offering a low-cost solution for one-page website. This product will help the information product makers in making their sales page, and the low cost will help them keep their sales page live for months. [PR.com - September 22, 2009] […]
- Gossimer’s the Ultimate Hosting Plan is Out and Running
Gossimer has released a new Unlimited Web Hosting plan as of July 1st and so far it has been a complete success. The release also provides some information about other innovations being implemented. [PR.com - July 25, 2009] […]
Gossimer Promotions and Announcements
- Scheduled downtime - Linux hosting service September 27, 2009
One of our Linux Hosting Servers is scheduled for a hardware upgrade on October 4, 2009. Since this requires a downtime for the server, all the sites hosted here shall experience an interruption in services for approximately 4 hours. […]
- Gossimer.biz - Promo Announcements September 21, 2009
There is more exciting news for the next month; a new .EU Promo and an increase in the barrier price for the .COM Promo. .EU @ $3.99 - Over 50% Off .COM @ $7.99 - New Barrier Price .CN New Price PHP4 Discontinuation […]
- PHP4 Discontinuation - 18th September September 7, 2009
As announced earlier, PHP4 will not be supported on our Linux Hosting Servers from the 18th of September, 2009. Please pass on this information to your Customers and Resellers to ensure that they can update their websites to work with PHP5. […]
- .CN Launch - Coming Soon August 16, 2009
We are glad to announce the launch of .CN - the most popular and fastest growing ccTLD worldwide. The .CN domain extension has seen an exemplary growth since its launch throughout the world. Earlier this year, .CN crossed over 13 million registrations to become the second most registered domain extension after .COM. Moreover, with China now representing […]
- Live Chat Product Discontinuation - Moved to 18th August August 16, 2009
Based on feedback that we received from several Resellers, we have decided to postpone the Live Chat discontinuation to the August of 18th, 2009 at 12:30 UTC. From the 18th of August, it will not be possible to purchase new Live Chat packages but exisiting packages will continue to function normally. […]