Karen Reddick, The Editor's Blog

Aphorisms are short, pointed sentences expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth. Here are twenty I’ve seen going around the Internet that might give you an “aha” moment, or might make you smile: 1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. 2. Money will buy a fine [...]

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The use of punctuation with parentheses and quotation marks can seem pretty confusing. There is no secret or trick; just try to remember the hard and fast rule is: parentheses out, quotations in. Of course, there are always exceptions, which I’ll show you below. Here are a few examples of punctuating with parentheses and quotations. [...]

Is your writing voice active or passive? If the performer of the action is the subject of the sentence, the verb is in active voice. If the performer of the action is not named or is not the subject of the sentence, the verb is in passive voice. Because verbs move our sentences and put [...]