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a little piece of advice: when writing, try to keep events happening in the same tense. E.g. if you start with your character “said”, “nodded”, “groaned” etc, stick to this.
Alternatively, if your character “waves hello”, “looks around”, “asks about directions”, stick to that. It makes sense, too! As you’re describing things that are happening at the time of writing, remember that. They’re happening as you’re writing.
It just doesn’t make sense to write a few sentences in one tense and the next ones in a different tense if they’re happening at the same time. It would be jarring to the reader and make your writing hard to follow.
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Ok folks who write Fictional Fantasy Proper Nouns and know more about grammar rules than me, I need some help vis a vis the royal romantic tournament in my book which is called the "rite of appointing"
For reference, in the text I refer to it as just "the rite" way more often than I use the whole term.
#i know 'rite of appointing' is nawwwt a sexy name so i am open to suggestions#it sounds too similar to the 'rite of anointing' from everyone's other favorite fantasy media: Catholicism#CavernousWIP#grammar help#poll#writeblr#fantasy
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The Return of the Revenge of More Grammar Help
I’m back in the beta saddle, and that means it’s time for me to overthink grammar and come crying to you all for help.
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First:
The red is so dark in parts it’s turning black.
In this sort of situation, where the sentence could also be written as “The red is so dark in parts that it’s turning black,” would it be correct to put a comma in place of “that?” “The red is dark in parts, it’s turning black.” I’ve seen examples of such with and without the comma but can’t find an actual statement on it.
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Second:
On reflex, the elf’s left eye followed Kabru’s hand.
Would this need to be “By reflex” instead?
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Third:
I tried hiring people to come to my flat, but either they couldn’t get me to relax, or they didn’t want the liability of leaving while I was asleep.
Regarding the comma after “relax,” I had thought that you shouldn’t use a comma to separate a correlative conjunction set (either/or), but it looks like there's some disagreement on that. Here are the sources I consulted, which say different things:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma-between-correlative-conjunction-sets/
https://study.com/learn/lesson/either-or-using-examples.html
https://prowritingaid.com/grammar/1000074/How-should-I-use-commas-with-not-only----but-also-
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Fourth:
There was a smaller door set into the larger ones, and that was what Mithrun opened after the keypad made a chirping sound, and Kabru heard the lock disengage with an audible clack.
Regarding the comma after “sound.” This is a situation that’s been tripping me up a lot lately. Because while that comma is separating independent clauses, “the keypad made a chirping sound” and “Kabru heard the lock disengage” both follow “after.” Do they need to be separated into separate thoughts when they seem to belong together? I do not know how to properly express my confusion about this.
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Fifth:
He carefully set the man’s feet in his lap, noticing that even after a shower, they felt cold and the tendons were rigid and tight.
The same sort of situation as above. “They felt cold” and “the tendons were rigid and tight” both proceed from “after a shower.” They both describe the things happening after the shower. Do they need to be separated by a comma? Or is it correct without one?
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Sixth:
This eventually resulted in a legal dispute after the death of Lord Kerensil in the year 504, where it was proven that Malthus was the legitimate heir, and Mithrun was in fact an illegitimate child.
The same situation again. “Malthus was the legitimate heir” and “Mithruin was an illegitimate child” are both what was proven. Does that comma need to be separating them?
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I appreciate any help anyone can give, especially with those last three examples.
(All snippets are included with the permission of the authors.)
#grammar help#grammar#punctuation#editing#writing#doc pretends to be a writer#doc betas sometimes#help#long post
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General rules
Who needs it?
Be careful of the person who needs something. In Turkish, we will almost always attach it to the verb as a personal suffix. A few of these attach to the "need" word, but not all. Because they are the owners of a verb, what is the subject in English becomes a possessor in Turkish. For example:
Sizin Türkçe daha fazla konuşmanız gerek.
= You need to speak more Turkish. (Literally, Your speaking more Turkish is necessary)
You don't need to include Sizin in the last sentence, but if you do include, it must be possessive Sizin and not Siz.
The infinitive
As you probably know, -mak/mek is the Turkish infinitive. This is the ending you will see if there are no other endings attached. However, once you add any personal ending (ex: -m, -n, -sı, -mız, -nız) or any noun case (ex: -ı, -a, -da, -dan, -la), that ending -k is dropped. However, in the absence of any ending, the Turkish verb can keep -mak/mek.
Remember that if you want an impersonal need, you can do that by not adding any personal ending and keeping that infinitive -mak/mek. In English, we would have to change the verb to passive or use a unique adjective like "necessary" to denote impersonal necessity. In Turkish, impersonal is the default, and we must add person by adding a personal suffix.
Arabayla gitmek gerek.
= It is necessary to go by car. (impersonal)
Arabayla gitmen gerek.
= YOU have to go by car. (personal to you)
When choosing your Turkish ending, try to keep in mind if you are using impersonal you or the actual 2nd person YOU. It might be identical in English, but it can be different in Turkish.
Part of speech?
Something else to keep in mind before listing all these words is what part of speech you need. Do you need a noun or a verb? For example, I need water vs. I need to drink water. This will help you narrow down what you want to use.
gerek
-ma + personal ending + gerek
This one is very flexible because gerekmek is also a verb meaning to be necessary/to be needed, to which you can attach time suffixes.
Bugün çamaşır yıkamam gerek. / Bugün çamaşır yıkamam gerekiyor.
= I need to do laundry today.
Yarın meşgul olacak mısın? Bana yardım etmen gerekecek.
= Will you be busy tomorrow? You'll need to help me.
Bu sabah çok erken uyanmam gerekti. Bu yüzden çok yorgunum.
= I had to wake up so early this morning. That's why I am so tired.
Be careful to not put the personal suffix on gerek.
şart
-ma + personal ending + şart
This word originally means "condition," so this affects how we use it. It's an adjective that means "necessary" or "needed," so just like gerek, we don't add a personal suffix onto şart but onto the verb. Because of its meaning of condition, this adjective must be with a nominal verb; you cannot use a noun. A noun is not a condition; a verb is a condition.
Her gün Türkçe öğrenmemiz şart.
= We need to learn Turkish every day.
Dışarı çıkmadan önce anahtarım bulmam şart.
= I need to find my key before I go out.
lazım
-ma + personal ending + lazım
This word has the same meanings as all the others. It is grammatically the same as şart; you should use verbs with personal suffixes and no suffix on the adjective lazım.
Bu kitabı okuman lazım.
= You should read this book.
Meyveler ve sebzeler daha fazla yemem lazım.
= I need to eat more fruits and vegetables.
-meli/malı-
verb + -meli/malı- + personal ending
This is not a word. This is an affix. More specifically, it is an infix that you put in the middle of the word with a verb root before and a personal ending after. This can only be attached to verbs.
Üşüdüğümde sıcak çay içmeliyim.
= I have to drink hot tea when I am cold.
Çok Türkçe kelimeleri hatırlamalısın.
= You have to remember a lot of Turkish words.
mecbur
-ma + -ya/ye + mecbur + personal ending
The meaning is the same on this one, but the syntax has changed a lot. Again, we need a verb with -ma, but it does not get a personal ending. It gets a dative ending -ya or -ye. This is one of the most common ending when adjectives connect to complements in Turkish. I've written about it on this blog before. Then, we have the adjective mecbur, which gets the personal ending.
Dersten önce bu kitabı okumaya mecbursun.
= You have to read this book before class.
Türkiye'ye geldiğinde Kapalıçarşı'ya seni götürmeye mecburuz.
= We have to take you to the Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı) when you come to Turkey.
zorunda
-mak + zorunda + personal ending
This one is unique but closer to the last one. This cannot really be translated properly, so just focus on the syntax. You must use the infinitive form of the verb without any personal ending. Then, zorunda is another word. Then, you add the personal ending to zorunda, just as if it is a location like okuldayım (=I am at school).
Saat 12'dan önce uyuyakalmak zorundanız.
= You need to fall asleep before 12 o'clock.
Video oyunu oynamak isterse önceden ev ödevini bitirmek zorunda.
= If he wants to play video games, he has to finish his homework beforehand.
ihtiyacı var
noun + -ya/ye + ihtiyaç + personal ending + var
What if you want to say that you need to have something? In English, we can use need with any noun and it sounds natural: I need water, time, space, etc. However, as you know, Turkish is very particular with var and yok.
The person who needs (the subject in English) is the personal ending of ihtiyaç, and the object of necessity (the object in English) is before ihtiyaç with a dative case ending. As you probably know the oddities of var and yok, again the person who is in need is the possessor of ihtiyaç and therefore gets a genitive ending -ın/nın.
Köpeğimin çok yardıma ihtiyacı var.
= My dog needs a lot of help.
Bana sınıf nerede olmayı gösterecek birine ihtiyacım var.
= I need someone to show me where the classroom is.
ihtiyaç duymak
noun + -ya/ye + ihtiyaç duymak + personal ending
This one is used in the situation of needing a noun or needing to have a noun. To talk about needing a noun, you need this construction: use a noun in the dative case and then ihtiyaç duymak conjugated for person.
What is special about this one is that this is the only one you can nominalize needing something. If you want to make a comment like "It's normal to need to study" or "She talks about needing a guide dog."
Yeni arkadaşlara ihtiyaç duyuyorum.
= I need new friends.
Yardıma ihtiyaç duymayı sevmiyorum.
= I don't like needing help.
Dünyayı kurtarmak istersek daha az ihtiyaç duymayı öğrenmeliyiz.
= If we want to save the world, we need to learn to need less.
Read the full post on my blog.
#turkish#turkish grammar#türkçe#langblr#polyglot#language learning#grammar#grammar explanation#grammar help
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Quick question about grammar.
What is the difference between is and are? Because are doesn’t always get used with singular.
I ask because when we use ‘they’ for multiple ppl it goes with are (ex they are going to the park)
But we also use are for singular they (as in instead of he or she for one person)
And it can’t just be a recent thing bcs when ppl talk about someone and they don’t fully refer to them or they are talking about someone where gender doesn’t apply (ex the winner of the pride will get the gold. They’re gonna have a blast!) they just use they (like i quite literally just did)
Anyways anyone willing to bestow this knowledge down to me is a great person.
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Grammar tip, the hardest punctuation to use is a semicolon; I can never remember how to use it myself.
You use a semicolon when you have two parallel statement; think of it as one paraphrasing the other.
Or when you are revealing more about the statement.
You can also use it instead of normal conjunction words, and it makes the statement look more fancy.
You can also use it instead of normal conjunction words; it makes the statement look more fancy.
One important thing to know about semicolons is that the statement should work individually as well; you should be able to put them in their own sentences and have them make sense.
(I got my info from https://www.grammarly.com/blog/semicolon/ bc I wanted to make sure I got things correct)
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Hey so is there any like...official grammar rule for using a or an for abbreviations?
Like fyi, technically the first word is "for" and the abbreviation starts with a consonant so "a" would be the go to, BUT it starts with a vowel sound "eff" so we naturally want to say "an"
This is a fyi vs this is an fyi
Obviously most people are gonna go with "an" especially when spoken, but what's/is there an official rule for that?
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I'm rotating in my mind a small poem for an art thingy I'm doing but I'm not good enough in English to figure out grammar
In this context : easy smiles exchanged in in dawn's light, made simple in the waning sand of dream
Would it be "waning sand of dream's" or "waning sands of dream" ?
Taking in that dream is the Sandman that puts people to sleep. Like, the early morning hours where you're not fully awake and don't put up your work mask and just, exist with someone else and exchange a nice moment with someone else
Anyone can help? I have English as my second language and I can't figure it out
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Fun bit of etiquette difference between Reddit and Tumblr is if someone misuses a word on Reddit (wrong "their", "peak"/"pique", whatever) it's common to see someone in the replies correct it and the OP will be like "oh thank you. edited my comment to fix grammar error"
If you do that on Tumblr you get mauled with teeth.
#chrissy speaks#I believe this counts as helpful advice toward any reddit newbies here because of the API blackout#edit: thinking about this a little more seriously#i think it's because Reddit is a bit more of a public forum#and oftentimes cares more about appearing smart in conversation#and since the things you say are meant to be viewed by the public#and meant to be part of a back-and-forth with strangers#then correcting grammar is a sort of 'hey your fly is down' moment#to help the person prevent future embarassment#while tumblr is much more 'you're just fucking around with some friends'#and if a stranger comes up to you to go 'well actually' theyll seem like a total knob
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Subordinate Clauses - a quick, sexy guide
Subordinate Clauses – a quick, sexy guide
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My beloved wife is not just a doctor of acupuncture, they also have a Master’s in both English and German. Language is their jam. To their eternal suffering, I do not have perfect grammar. When prompted they said it’s “fairly acceptable” on a day to day basis.
But I do have quirks that make them quietly grit their teeth. One of them is my indifference to differentiation between “is” and “are”. On multiple occasions they’ve tried to explain to me when I misuse “is,” and generally I can’t even parse what’s upset them. They gave an example of me asking, “Is there pickles in the fridge?” rather than the correct “Are there pickles in the fridge?”
They’ve told me that to pacify the editor in their brain they’ll mentally correct my sentences and that’s usually enough. Tonight it was me saying “There is other narrators,” in reference to a series we’re reading. When they pointed it out tonight it was to say that “are” would have been correct because there’s multiple other narrators.
“No,” I countered, “I was trying to use ambiguous language but there is really only one other narrator, so in my mind I knew that and spoke incorrectly because I knew it was singular but the sentence implied it was plural.”
This incensed them further (I also don’t know the difference between further and farther and the pneumonic is just as unhelpful to me as the one for stalactites and stalagmites.)
What’s funny to me though was that I asked about my use of “kind’ve” that people got worked up over in my 20lb ass post. “Doesn’t that bother you? It’s blatantly wrong.”
“No, that’s just a colloquialism, it’s fine.”
#ramblies#funny#that gay wife life#for the love if god please don’t try to provide helpful pneumonics#I am just telling a story and I’m perfectly content at my current levels of aptitude#grammar#please also refrain from jokes about the English/German pairing my wife is Jewish and will not appreciate it#genuinely pneumonic was an autocorrect but yknow what#I’m leaving it
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#eeber#lol#umm. HELP!#looking at yt videos where peopel are drew scribbly rough anime fights that go fucking HARD#HOW!#u envision those poses all in your head... godg damn...#i gotta study !!!!#IGNORE MY SHIT GRAMMAR THE FOG CAME FOR ME
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#appalachian gothic#appalachia#rural decay#americana#rural america#rural gothic#southern gothic#if anyone gets stuck on the grammar with this sign too so help me god
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I need more Danny ‘No more hero’ Phantom, so here I will be reasoning why he’s an Anti-Hero (in Dp x Dc prompt)
Danny doesn't see Death as the worst thing. He's too familiar with it (He is Death).
Sometimes it's better than 'living'. It's like a 'new beginning', a chance to let go like he tried to he did.
He left hero things with everything in his hometown. Where no matter what, he's been The Villain, The ghost, the menace.
People Humans only see in him what he did while being mind-controlled or forced to. Not that he saves them every day. They are afraid of him, of his power.
Just how are people still like Superman and other heroes who are more powerful than regular humans? They get mind-controlled and forced to be evil sometimes too.
That isn't fair.
And while They chose to save other people's asses because they wanted to, Danny didn't have a choice, if he didn't step in, the town would be destroyed in days.
He hoped that his parents Fentons would finally realize why ghosts were coming into town, but they just blamed Ghost Boy for all of the wrongdoings and never considered they were wrong.
So after 2 and a half years of hope, he burned out and just destroyed the portal, cleared out all of the ectoplasm, and left.
Now if ghosts wanted to 'visit' living they needed to go to Danny and personally ask.
This means no more Technus 'I will take over the world' and Emder 'I will make everyone love my music by mind-control', and just Technus 'I'll only check new tech stuff' and Ember 'I'll hang out with Kitty in the park and play some guitar', of course in more human form.
Danny himself decided to stick around Gotham because one - Bats are interesting, and two - ectoplasm (which he tries to clear out, at least a little bit).
So now he messes with Bats and humans while he's Anti-Hero - Phantom.
And gets yelled at by people at Batburger while he's a regular worker - Danny Nightingale.
But what will the Justice League do when Phantom will save the world from some big bad ghost with impressive ease, and just leave…
That powerful being is not just some generic troublemaker in the streets of Gotham.
He's the end and sawing of the world (and Infinite Realms).
#dp x dc#dp x dc prompt#dp x dc crossover#dp#danny phantom#danny fenton#Anti-Hero Phantom#Jason actually kinda like the guy#his jokes are the best#plus little help in Crime Alley on busy days is always appreciated#Danny uses ectoweapons to cower how powerful he is#he plays the card#oh no my gun i'm powerless#bats find out that he doesn't need the guns at some point#but still believe guns give some energy boost#ghost king danny#sorry for grammar errors#English my second language#and i dunno how to talk#i want to continue the idea#but first i should actually know something about the dc universe#i might be using the term Anti-Hero wrong#sorry for that#i really don't know this stuff#StarBrite
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