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Stage 1-a: The Essence of a Sentence – “Introduction”

Stage 1-a: The Essence of a Sentence – “Introduction” As I will remind you elsewhere (sorry to nag, but it’s vitally important), your learning will benefit greatly if you read and study my system — all three “stages” — in their sequential order. So start here, then work your way through all the Stage 1…

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Let’s get political — NOT!

Don’t let that knee jerk! I want to get an early start on demonstrating the lack of political side taking that I will demonstrate and also hope you will be able to emulate, when that would help you, which is often, in our present times of unprecedented (at least in the past century) divisiveness. For…

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Ending Pronoun Madness – 2 — incl. HOW (to *do* it, graciously!)

In this post — a continuation of  Part 1 — I am heading, with a critical eye but also a fix-it mentality, straight into a trend (grammatical? sociological?) of growing dominance in publishing and other mainstream settings. Motivationally speaking . . . I would like to clarify my motivation for “targeting” this this topic (“pronoun…

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Ending Pronoun madness #1 — the WHY (b/c “Words Matter”?)

“Words Matter” — that’s my mantra for curing “pronoun madness.” Ironically, it’s the same (unexplained, unsupported, and unconvincing) mantra used/misused/abused by the shallow and misguided advocates of the very pronoun madness I wish to eradicate from our language, especially in public use. Note: Elsewhere in the Writing Lessons, section of this blog (under Grammar &…

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