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Originally Posted by Dee Q
- Have you learned a lot of grammar structure and vocabulary from books?
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I don't write (only in code...) so I won't answer your first or third question.
Yes, I have learned a lot of my vocabulary from books. Grammar not so much, as not all writers write perfect grammar at all times (nor should they at those times... think of a book about a foreign speaking person for instance... or lines in some form of dialect).
One of my teachers once told me when I asked how to write "favourite": look it up in a dictionary, because that way you'll remember it. He was right, I never forgot how to write it (and I can even recall the exact setting and the face of the teacher when he told me that
) So, whenever I come across a word I don't know and can't distill the meaning out of the text, I'll look it up and thus increase my vocabulary.
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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
a dangling participle
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Whenever I see that, I am reminded of King's Quest VI...