by Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is style guides. It's true that when it comes to grammar there are a lot of hard and fast rules; but it's also true that there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of issues that are dictated by style. I know it would be so

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(27) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

This is Day to Day, I am Alex Chadwick.It's time for our weekly book report.We all know you can not judge a book by its cover,but can you judge it by the lack of a subtitle? Book critic David Kipen thinks: Yes, maybe you can. Almost no publisher tak

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 2005年NPR美国国家公共电台

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is generic personal pronouns. Nolan in Victoria, British Columbia, asked the following question: Just wondering about whether to use she or he in terms of giving examples. Since she was written out of the literature f

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: some new elements in The Elements of Style.RS: The Elements of Style is a little book that for decades has served countless writers and editors. The two authors have long since pa

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: some new elements in The Elements of Style. RS: The Elements of Style is a little book that for decades has served countless writers and editors. The two authors have long since p

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Today were going to talk about italics, that slanted type that you sometimes see amidst regular roman type. Following the Rules Open up any style guide and it'll give you a list of items that need to be italicized. The important thing to remember is

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl