Pinknails, Please Post:46522 and 56402 Also, please don't carpet bomb the forum with your requests to have your letter examined. One request is sufficient. Several requests is impolite. We Canadians are usually more polite. You had

Many of the words do look like misspells, but the nonstandard spellings (like 'cuz') do seem to fit into the story. What do you think? Should this be in standard English? PS. I'm only a novice in creative writing. Haven't even finished my

I intentionally made up the word "lunchable". I guess my native-speaking proofreaders were okay with it since we were all in a creative writing group, and there were even more outrageous with words such as (words like SOBEIT???). I do agree

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english is easy. but excelling in that subject is hard example: um... writing is easy, but creative writing is hard. you could just write and write but you can't just call yourself good. eric

Richard Sabey wrote on 04 Jun 2004: Richard Sabey wrote on 04 Jun 2004: Because that is the current cliché about the direction of the level of English. Aha. Here, the point of interest is the writer's capacity to express his meaning. Yes, I

Dylan Nicholson wrote on 02 Jun 2004: The following speech is from a book titled "When the ... the number of Japanese decrease in spite of their determination? Not really, just means that the number of Japanese soldiers is in steady decrease,

I think you are correct on all counts. The subjunctive is the "correct" form in the examples you have given, but as you have noted, it is widely disregarded in modern English, even to the point of being almost obsolete. Personally, I like

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