Shark Bytes and Tales

There are many things you can do to help your editor/formatter return a clean manuscript to you. Here is one of them. This has a bit more ...

Dialog is created when characters are quoted word for word. Bill said, "I don't like squash." This is dialog. Bill told us t...

There are a number of regions in the U.S. where most of the population does not use seen and saw in the same format as standard English. I...

Should you use I or me in that sentence? Let's get the names of those things out of the way. "I" is a subject. It can do act...

If a sentence begins with an introductory phrase/clause, place a comma after it. See what I did there? Other examples: A. Buried und...

If the second part of the sentence isn’t a sentence, don’t use a comma. Example: John ate the chili and burped loudly. (“and burped loudly...

A sentence is made up of a noun and a verb. The parts of the sentence are called the subject which contains the noun and the predicate whi...