Tips for the ‘cowboy’ writer

Whether or not you’ve taken our tongue-in-cheek style test, if you write like George…
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Take our writing style test

. . . and discover what kind of business writer you are. For each set of sentences…
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Jack Nicholson was right!

In a poll conducted in 2009, Britons voted the line from the 1992 film A Few Good Men…
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The language of love . . .

Yo! For all you online suitors out there hoping to woo with the written word, here’s…
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An overcompensation of nouns

I’ve no idea if children are taught about collective nouns in schools these days.…
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Literally speaking

Literally is one of many words that are widely misused nowadays. Nevertheless, unlike…
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Fewer and less

Fewer is one of those words that seems to be disappearing. I don’t know if it is…
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The business of being Shakespeare

On one of my recent Google trawls I came upon this description of lawn weeds: Flowering…
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Nothing is ‘for free’

Fear not, this isn't some comment on the absence or otherwise of altruism today. It's…
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Its or it’s

If it’s a perennial worry working out when to use its or it’s, then here’s a…
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