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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:21:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - A Parenthetical PuzzleWriters somet... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 05:02:07 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ A Parenthetical PuzzleWriters sometimes trip themselves up when they try to introduce a parenthetical element in a sentence without ensuring that the main clause of the sentence remains grammatically ...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - 10 Points About PossessivesWriters ... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 05:02:13 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ 10 Points About PossessivesWriters are often challenged by the details of producing singular and possessive forms, but dealing with less common possessive variations can be downright vexing. Here are ...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - Shift Syntax to Strengthen Sentence... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:02:06 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ Shift Syntax to Strengthen SentencesEnglish syntax is flexible, enabling writers to shape a given sentence in various ways, and we should take advantage of this lack of rigidity to enhance the impact ...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - The Rationale for the Serial CommaD... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:02:08 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ The Rationale for the Serial CommaDo you employ a serial comma &#8212; the final comma in a sentence such as “I bought one apple, two bananas, and three oranges”?
If your work for or with a business o...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - What Is a Clause?A clause is a stat... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:02:08 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ What Is a Clause?A clause is a statement or a question that generally consists of a subject and a verb phrase and constitutes a complete thought. Sentences can consist of a single clause, but they oft...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - The Reality of Freelance WritingA r... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 07:02:09 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ The Reality of Freelance WritingA recent Craigslist job posting invites readers to apply to write twenty or more 1,000-word online-marketing articles per week. The pay rate? Twenty dollars per article...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - 45 Synonyms for “Old” and “Old-Fash... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:02:07 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ 45 Synonyms for “Old” and “Old-Fashioned”Our culture’s attitude toward age is reflected in the often-pejorative meanings of words synonymous with old and old-fashioned, though some are neutral or even...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - How to Pitch an EssayDo you have so... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:02:07 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ How to Pitch an EssayDo you have something in writing you’d like to share with the world? Not a complete book manuscript, perhaps, but musings of a concise nature? Perhaps you like to explain things, ...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - Answers to Questions About TenseHer... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:02:07 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ Answers to Questions About TenseHere are several readers’ queries about various aspects of tense, and my responses.
1. Which sentence is correct, “The teacher said to Peter, ‘I am proud to have a wond...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - 10 Functions of the CommaA comma is... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:02:10 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ 10 Functions of the CommaA comma is a versatile punctuation mark, serving ten basic functions. Here’s an enumeration, with examples.
1. Separate the elements in a series: “Groucho, Harpo, and Chico de...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - What Is a Determiner?Among lists of... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:02:07 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ What Is a Determiner?Among lists of parts of speech, you may see an unfamiliar word among nouns, verbs, conjunctions, and the other usual suspects. What’s a determiner?
A determiner is a word that mod...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - What’s the Best Way to Refer to a R... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 05:02:14 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ What’s the Best Way to Refer to a Romantic Partner?One of the oddities of the English language is that though many words have multiple synonyms, and we have words for many things we rarely refer to, o...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - Capitonyms Are Separate CasesSome w... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:02:08 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ Capitonyms Are Separate CasesSome words, in a class called capitonyms, have distinct meanings or senses when they are capitalized as opposed to generic senses. Writers should take care to render these...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - How to Style Titles of Print and On... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 05:02:06 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ How to Style Titles of Print and Online PublicationsThe rules for formatting titles of compositions and their constituent parts may seem complicated, but they follow a fairly straightforward set of gu...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - More Answers to Questions About Com... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 07:02:06 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ More Answers to Questions About CommasHere are three recent questions from readers about the use of commas, along with my responses.
1. Can you tell me why there should be a comma in this sentence: “S...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - Are Tense Shifts Advisable?Should a... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:02:07 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ Are Tense Shifts Advisable?Should all verbs in a sentence be consistent in tense? Tense shift is often essential, but it’s sometimes unnecessarily discouraged.
See, for example, this sentence: “I thou...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - Use a Dash for Number RangesWhich s... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:02:14 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ Use a Dash for Number RangesWhich symbol should be used with numbers: a hyphen (-), or an en dash (–)? The question may seem trivial &#8212; a dash is a dash, right? &#8212; but using the correct symb...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - 10 Tips About How to Write a Captio... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 07:02:16 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ 10 Tips About How to Write a CaptionIf you contribute to production of a print or online publication that includes photographs or illustrations, you’re likely, at some point, to write captions. Here’s...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - 5 Online Style GuidesYou’re looking... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 09:02:12 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ 5 Online Style GuidesYou’re looking for a style guide to adopt, or for one you can use as a model for creating your own personal or professional handbook, but you don’t want to pay for one or more boo...  ]]> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Writing Tips News's activity - 5 Examples of Proper Style for Prop... ]]> </title> 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:02:06 GMT</pubDate> 
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			<![CDATA[ 5 Examples of Proper Style for Proper NounsA proper noun, also known as a proper name, is capitalized to indicate that it denotes a unique entity or phenomenon. Many entities or phenomena are widely k...  ]]> 
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