Grammar and Language

Writers who are serious about establishing a career (or even making regular sales) must understand the basics of grammar, spelling, punctuation and usage. If you have a 'weak' area, check out the articles below and see if there's something here that can help.

And DO invest in a couple of basic textbooks on grammar!

• Sentence Construction
  
  Most people should have learned how to construct a sentence in their early years at school -- but ask any editor about the way writers use sentence structure and you'll see lots of eye-rolling. Here I'm going to look at just two problems that I've seen crop up many times when I've critiqued scenes for writers or marked assignments for writing courses.