Theme music by Catherine Rannus National Grammar Day (March 4) by forsaking these common language myths. This is the article we mentioned if you want to read more about the historical present tense: Schiffrin, Deborah. Theme music by Catherine Rannus you noticed people switching to the present tense when they're telling stories? It actually has a name: It's called the "historical present tense."
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Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Watch my LinkedIn Learning writing course. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. We discussed the thought that goes behind ordering the essays in an anthology, the challenges of trying to edit writers using different dialects into one book, and more. Theme music by Catherine Rannus I talked with Saraciea Fennell, who works in publishing, is behind the Bronx Book Festival, and is also the editor of a new anthology, "Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed," featuring essays from an all-star line-up of Latinx writers. And you'll be amazed by the origin of the word "Jeep." And in honor of NaNoWriMo-because you have to name so many things in fiction-we talked about the most common ways places get their names. Before the 1940s, you couldn't tell an eager beaver to shut his pie hole while you were being debriefed by the head honcho. Theme music by Catherine Rannus was a rich source of new words for the English language. Plus, we have fun and fascinating facts about Caesar and some of the phrases he gave us, such as "veni, vidi, vici" and "crossing the Rubicon." Theme music by Catherine Rannus this week's podcast, we discuss why you should never call your girlfriend your penultimate friend. Plus, we tackle that anxiety producting punctuation mark, the semicolon. Theme music by Catherine Rannus You have the tickets, don't you? Today we talk about those tiny questions at the end of sentences, what purpose they serve, and who is most likely to use them. Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.
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We talk about what she learned along the way while working on "Death at Greenway." Accomplished mystery writer Lori Rader-Day was drawn to the story of children who were evacuated to Agatha Christie's vacation home during WWII, but having never written a historical novel before, she faced challenges.