Lol
Thatās actually really funny. I wish I could go to California. Iām from VA.
My accent is nonexistent.
Lol, I blame āKeeping up with the Kardashiansā
What is VA an abbreviation of?
Virginia. Sorry for the late response.
Ohhh I think Virginia sounds like such a pleasant place to live
I heard latin people (me included) sound like people from Florida when they speak in English. Is this really accurate? - and no, not with strong accents like Sofia Vergara, more like Shakira or Gisele BĆ¼ndchen.
Donāt get too down! You definitely have an accent to us English people: an American one!
Bumping!
Thank you so much for this! You sound like my old ELA teacher! (Thatās a very good thing, I loved her) I am so glad you decided to do this, as many people will benefit from this.
Hello! Iām glad you liked it! Iāll be sure to update soon after much deliberation on what I should cover next. In the meantime, please feel free to check out my new blog post on exposition and how it can make or break a story!
This has turned into something way more than just a grammar thread, but nowās the time for a new update!
Itās been a while and Iām super sorry for that, but I thought we could discuss the use of pretentious vocabulary today.
It all started with a blog post about ābig wordsā that seemed to do pretty well this month, so I thought Iād take a few moments out to make a post about it on here too!
You have to be really careful when youāre adding in big words that are less frequently used. You can look like youāre doing one of the following:
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Patronising your audience, trying to make it seem like you know more than they do.
Okay, I do this one in the occasional argument. Itās a really easy trap to fall into. Avoid it like the plague if you can. All itās going to to do is make it seem like you think youāre above your audience and, if they donāt understand what youāre saying, your writing will become less accessible (meaning that they wonāt be able to really understand and engage with it). Your message and storyline will be lost in a bombardment of big words! -
Looking like you have no clue what youāre saying yourself.
This oneās pretty common on Episode and seems to come from people thinking that using big words automatically makes their writing more sophisticated. Thatās really not true, and you end up kinda looking silly. -
Losing the point of your work.
If you try to bombard your reader with words that are difficult to understand, you might lose your point yourself, which would be even weirder than your audience simply not understanding it. This happens when you spend so much time wondering what synonym you should use for a specific word that you lose the tone of the work completely! Remember that different words have different connotations. āSlenderā and āskinnyā may be synonyms, but one sounds way more positive than the other!
But also be careful: it is important to make sure that you add words that arenāt necessarily easy to understand. Sometimes they make more sense and fit better into a sentence. Other times, your work sounds like a childrenās book - which can be even more patronising to the audience - so adding in a complex word every now and then may add to the work in a very positive way. Plus, why not teach your readers a new word every now and then? You can do it very well if you know how!
If you want to find out how, please check out the blog post and help me grow! The more views I get, the more of an excuse I have to drop my hours at work and pursue giving you all free advice as a career
Please give suggestions for the next post! Iād love to know what grammar points you all struggle with!
Of course! Haha use away
Due to a complaint in the forums today, I feel like my next post should be addressing the infamous āand meā vs āand Iāā¦ and I have to tell you that both are right. It completely depends on how you use them.
Before I get to the easier way to tell which one to use, Iāll explain it in more grammatical terms.
Basically, you use āmeā when you and the other person are the object in the sentence. And āIā when youāre the subject.
Broadly, that means that āIā does an action or a verb and āmeā has the verb or action done to them.
Itās the same principle as āwhoā and āwhomā!
Now on to the easy way to tell.
When youāre talking about yourself only, would you say ādid you do that for Iā or āme am going to the shopā?
Nope! Youād say ādid you do that for meā and āI am going to the shopā. The same applies even when you add another person. So the correct way to say those sentences when youāre taking about yourself and someone else would be exactly the same.
The correct way to say those two sentences with another person would be ādid you make that for Anabelle and me?ā And āTheo and I are going to the shopsā.
I hope that makes sense!
This is a super important thing to remember. Iāve seen even the most well-written stories on here get confused with this little rule. Itās probably because so many people are told itās āblah blah and Iā at school and were constantly corrected without an explanation!
I am also a lowkey grammar police looool. Spag is one of the best things Iām good at
The good old grammar police ā international edition
same lol
Bumping this
Bump
Grammar is very important in stories ^^