Today's the day the Occupy Wellington people have been removed by police from their camping site in Civic Square. I'm not about to pontificate on the wrongs and rights, the origins and developments of the Occupy movement—although I have an...
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Writing tip: Watch the wicked 'which'
A sentence containing the word which can have correct grammar and yet still be hopelessly unclear. Run a safety check every time you use which in mid-sentence, referring to something earlier in the sentence. You may know what you mean,...
Writing tip: Which or that? in relative clauses
Which and that mean different things in relative clauses. Here's a safe way to differentiate between them. (I'm telling you the U.S. grammar rule: easy to remember, easy to use.) Use that when you want to say, 'I mean the...
Long list of dot points: a neat solution
What to do when you have a long list of items of equal weight—and a numbered list is not appropriate? Above all, don't just vomit them out. Communications dogma says un-ordered lists should be restricted to 3–7 items. This makes...
Writing tip: Beware the floating starter phrase
Sometimes you'll start a sentence with a descriptive phrase, for example: Sprinkled with chives, [...] Smiling broadly, [...] . What comes after the starter phrase and the comma? Make sure it's the same thing that the phrase describes: Sprinkled with...