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Tag: Diana Hacker

Grammar and Usage and Pie, Oh My

March 28, 2018 A. B. Westrick 8 Comments

I love talking craft—character development, plot, point of view, pacing, setting, dialogue. But hey, when a reader can’t get into…

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Filed under: apple pie, Diana Hacker, Get a Grip on your Grammar, grammar, Kris Spisak, Martha Brockenbrough, Perfect English Grammar, revision, Rules for Writers, Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, Things that Make Us [Sic], writing

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