Punctuation (your rhet and comp grades will thank us *bows*)
Correct this sentence:
you are bad at grammar
You are bad at grammar.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
Bilbo
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
What is wrong with your writing if you can add "by zombies" to the end of a sentence?
You're writing in passive voice
Which geographic location is given an inordinate amount of page time in Les Miserables?
Paris sewers
How should you punctuate this dialogue?
Hi I'm your resident percipitator of chaos, also known as a writer you said with a maniacal grin
"Hi, I'm your resident percipitator of chaos, also known as a writer," you said with a maniacal grin.
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
Faramir
Leaf by Niggle
J.R.R. Tolkien
Which element of the hero's journey follows the call to adventure and is commonly skipped?
Followed by...
The call knows where you live
Which character is "killed" in Swiss Family Robinson?
We think it was John, but we're not certain
How should you use a semicolon?
To connect two closely related independent clauses in a sentence, or to separate items in a list when a mere comma would cause undue confusion
"I like large parties... At small parties there isn't any privacy."
Jordan Baker, The Great Gatsby
The Count of Monte Cristo
What French word labels the final part of the three-act story structure?
Denoumont
Who kills Lennie in Of Mice and Men?
George
What's the difference between "fewer" and "less?"
"Fewer" is to be used for countable items, and "less" should be used for uncountable items.
"Ah, the outdoors. I visisted that mythical place once."
Shallan Davar, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury
What is the technical term for when the 'show' and 'tell' of a story disagree?
What is Don Qixote's real name?
Alonso Quijano
What is wrong with this sentence?
These three things: the oxford comma, the hanging participle, and mis-ordered adjectives are three grammatical conventions which are not necessarily errors.
A colon can only follow a complete independent clause.
"I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man."
The Underground Man from Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Barronness Emmuska Orczy
What is Orwell's final rule of writing?
"Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
What is an important philosophical event that happens to several of the characters in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities?
Several characters are "recalled to life."