Precepts for Writers
By J J Roberwitz.
(Excerpts from prize winner, Eats, Shoots and gets Life)
Grammar Made Simple.
Placing your conjoiners before nouns, and even worse, after adverbs, render your prepositions invalid.
A very good book to read is; Andrew Lloyd Weavers, ‘English as a Language’. Which deals with this common problem, and other grammatical problems of course.
(One couldn’t sell a book with just two lines in it. I’m sure you would agree.)
Another major problem with amateur writers, and I don’t know why because it is so simple, is using inappropriate nouns, before, after, and even during, pro-nouns and adverbs, and ‘Vici Verdi. This can cause great confusion, for instance, if instead of ‘Barrow’ we inadvertently used the noun ‘Spade’, not many holes would get dug.
A bank robber with a cucumber instead of a gun would soon be grammatically bankrupt.
So there it is, just remember the basics, a conjoiner to a writer is similar to a mortise and tenon to a carpenter; the timber being the ad-verb, the saw being the noun, and NEVER the other way round.
I hope to have explained away any Grammar Gremlins.
You can’t go wrong using this simple method.
Other best seller by same author,
Grammar Made Difficult.
