From my personal point of view, say, I was reading your letter as if I was the one you were addressing, you letter is too long and less focused. This is my suggestion: Using one paragraph to give a brief history of your employment after you have

http://twoadverbs.blogspot.com/ Reading for Contests: In many ways, this method is more brutal on the writer. I am comparing your work against other scripts. How does the reading system work? Do I soak in a hot bath and eat chocolates while I gaze

Fumes made me go lowbrow, says writer Jack Malvern A prize-winning novelist has won a settlement of more than £100,000 after she claimed to have become so intoxicated by fumes from a nearby shoe factory that she was reduced to writing thrillers.

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It's Timespeak, and Timespeak grammar is not identical with English grammar. "Timestyle", please. I was editing wire copy many years ago, and came across a sentence that began, "Prime Minister, Mr Edward Heath's ...

Of the seven items in quotes in that paragraph, the ... in the face of strong advice not to go climbing.) "Doing the walk", "doing the climb", "doing the trail", usually with reference to a particular, known route,

But you can "go ALONE the climb", which in English ... cases where one would say they're "going a climb alone". Of the seven items in quotes in that paragraph, the only ones that are possible English utterances are

Fowler's King's English: As to the past tense, orders cannot ... with unambiguous past reference. Is that use of "should" obsolete? Didn't Fowler mean that "What should I do?" was the quasi-past form he objected to?

Mike Morgan asks about: "Subsection 2 (1) specifies that unless otherwise indicated, references in this Act to "this Act" include regulations made under it." Perfectly understandable bureaucratic, or rather legalistic,