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What’s up with THAT?
by, Jill Swenson
September 19, 2017

As an editor I see one four letter word overused and abused more than any other. T. H. A. T. That. Many times it serves no grammatical purpose whatsoever. It is a filler word. You use it in conversation to signal to others a pause, like a verbal comma, to give the impression to a listener you haven’t finished speaking.  In writing, however, it is… [Read More]

Filed Under: conjunction, filler words, Mary Norris, nonrestrictive clauses, pronoun, restrictive clauses, subordinate clauses, That, that or which, The Comma Queen, who or that
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Recommended. Summer. Reading.
by, Jill Swenson
June 23, 2015

Two novels. Both are set during the Second World War and yet neither is a war story.      Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, won the Pulitizer Prize for fiction this year. Read it to gain an appreciation for what editors mean when they say “character-driven plot.” This is much more than a story about WWII. Marie-Louise is a blind 14-year-old girl… [Read More]

Filed Under: Abigail Thomas, Anthony Doerr, Cathryn Prince, David Treuer, Heather Lende, Jon Krakauer, Jon Ronson, Kate Atkinson, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Norris, Sasha Martin, Smith Henderson, Vincent Crapanzano
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