Day: July 13, 2020

Dear writers, Quick! Find and erase! Delete that errant expression from your writing! That your short story set in Lagos or Umuahia should not tell us about the ‘hot summer day’ or ‘autumn leaves’ falling. No. No matter how tempted you are, no matter if you are domiciled in the western hemisphere. If you have
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There are three types of dashes in using the English language writing convention. They are: Hyphen en dash em dash I have arranged them according to their length, with the hyphen being the shortest and the em dash the longest. Traditionally, and especially when the typewriter reigned, the hyphen is just very short, the length
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