Recently I've been editing a lot of technical articles. Poor grammar and the use of passive voice has apparently been a bit of an issue for me!
In the course of understanding the difference between active and passive voice, I stumbled over HyperGrammar, which is an electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre. It's an excellent website, one which I'm interested in reading - especially as the Australian school system never taught me grammar as it fell out of fashion with the teaching profession. A terrible mistake we are now all paying for - I understand that grammar is now back in fashion, so I suppose that there is still hope.
I just started reading about what a pronoun is, but as it's almost 11PM, I decided to stop when I discovered you can use subjective personal pronouns, objective personal pronouns, possessive person pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, relative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns and, finally, intensive pronouns!
Friday, March 6, 2009
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