Monthly Archives: October 2013

why can’t I use “me” instead of “I” when saying “you and I”? when do I use the word “whom”? when do I use a comma? https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ I found this link helpful because it helped me to understand what the … Continue reading →

Part 1 When would it be a good time in a sentence to add a comma and/ or a period? What happened with using just the url of a website when you cite it ? When would you know if there … Continue reading →

Part I 1) Why is it so bad to start a sentence with the word And? 2) Is it really bad to start a sentence with the word But? Why?   Part II https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

Part I 1) Why do some say it’s better if you don’t start a sentence with “because”? 2) I’ve seen the word light being used in the past tense in as “lit” and “lighted” are both of them correct? 3) … Continue reading →

The difference between stories and essays in terms of genre is that an essay is non-fiction while stories are. In journalism there is a sentence called a lede which is the first sentence in an article. This is very apparent … Continue reading →

1) Was Shakespeare’s order of words in his sentences correct.(ex:Why art thou weareth mother’s drapes?) The spelling might be incorrect in the example but that was a line in one of his many plays. 2)I know this was given in … Continue reading →

Introductions: we do it all of the time; there are different strategies (question, anecdote, quote, title/author, other?); in newspaper articles, it is common to talk a lot about the first sentence of the article, which is referred to as the … Continue reading →

In “Mother Language” by Amy Tan, Tan talk about her mother English and how it had affected her over the years. Tan tell us there is different ways to speak English. She explain that to people her mother English seem … Continue reading →

1)Does a thesis have to be something that can be argued? 2)Can you have more than one thesis? 3)If so how can you interchange them?