42 articles on "sentence"

Making Better Word Choices - 4 Examples

Making Better Word Choices - 4 Examples by: David J. Clapham Writers face many decisions when working on a project. Choosing the correct word for a certain situation is one choice that writers often either struggle with or make an incorrect choi...

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For Those Times When You Might Want to Do Without 'Had'

Have you ever read a short story you've written and discovered an overuse of the word 'had?' I certainly have. It's one of the dilemmas I once faced with my own writing. Besides learning and practicing the rules of grammar, and th...

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What's Your Selling Sentence?

What's Your Selling Sentence? by: BIG Mike McDanielWhat's your Selling Sentence? If you have a business, you need a selling sentence. Sometimes called the Defining Sentence or the Secondary Statement, the Selling Sentence is the group ...

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Your Resume Should Have Character

Your Resume Should Have Character by: Linda Matias The notion that employers are only interested in where you have been and where you are heading is pure nonsense. Experienced hiring managers take into account both your experience and your chara...

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Convicting Children

The conviction of 14-year-old Lionel Tate for first-degree murder and the subsequent life in prison sentence has been all but absent from the media lately. After the Florida court handed down the shocking sentence three weeks ago, it seems the media ...

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Put Some Punch In Your Classified Ad

Classified ads are the world's number one cheap way toadvertise. They cost just a fraction of a large print ad. Andyou get your classified ad in everything from an emailnewsletter to USA Today.Most classified ads are either hard to understand or...

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Write and Speak for the Ear

Write and Speak for the Ear by: Robert F. Abbott You and I may not aspire to write great books or make great speeches. But almost all of us want something to happen when we write or speak. And, the more we direct our words to the ears of readers...

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Some Sticky Grammar Situations or How to Avoid Some Ugly Mistakes!

Some Sticky Grammar Situations or How to Avoid Some Ugly Mistakes! by: Jan Kovarik With the advent of electronic word-processing and spellchecker programs, many people just presume that simply by running spellchecker all of their grammar errors ...

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Want To Submit More Articles Faster

Submitting articles to top websites and ezines two or more timesa week can yield 15 or more subscribers to your own ezine eachtime. Read by thousands, even hundreds of thousands, yourarticles also bring people to your Web site to buy your products.Kn...

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The Writing is in the Rewriting. Seven Steps to Getting it Right

Writers who are so fluent, facile and sure-footed that they can write their stuff down and that's the way it runs are rare.Ernest Hemingway rewrote the last paragraph of THE SUN ALSO RISES 28times before he got it right. David Ogilvy confessed t...

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