Some of you might know already that I’m an EFL teacher (I teach English as a Foreign or Second Language). Plus, I studied English Language and Literature at university and I’m a bit of a grammar nerd.
So I am more than happy to help you with any of your grammar questions! No question is too stupid!
If you’re writing a story, it would help me a lot if you sent the sentence or line that you need the most help with. Otherwise, some specific questions would be super!
I’ll be making another thread full of grammar advice for the broader, more general theories, so I’ll be posting the bigger topics there!
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What’s the best way to spot a complex sentence? I know what it is, but it is hard to spot sometimes. I often can confuse it with a simple or compound sentence.
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Okay, so I am trying to get my dialogue right in one of my scenes. Okay, so there is a bargain between a disguised king and a witch. Just going to put some sentences here if it needs to be corrected.
“I would like to offer you a bargain.”
“I thought you were going to take gold as payment?”
“I help you with the medicine, and you help me with something.”
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The grammar is fine, but people tend to use contractions when they’re speaking. It speeds up speech. Like “I thought you were gonna” or "I’d like to offer’
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Bump, people always need help with their grammar 
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Please feel free to come to me with your grammar questions!
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“Eat, shoots, and leaves” and “Eats shoots and leaves”
Can anyone tell me the difference?!
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First quote means someone or something decided to eat, shoot, then leave. The second quotation means a person or thing is eating shoots and leaves (which means shoots + leaves are considered food).
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YAY!
I love this example sooo much!
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Yeah, it’s quite a nice one! I’mma steal it for my little sister 
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Bump!
Which would you use in this sentence? Much or many
There are so ____ cows in that field.
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I’d use many. I just realized how weird the word ‘many’ is.
Here’s a paragraph to check over. The last sentence is meant to cut off. Do you think there was something better I could’ve done?
He breathed in the frigid bitterness of the air, white clouds escaping as he breathed out. It was cold, miserably cold. Sitting alone, unmoving, the wooden patio seat solemnly swung as soft snow fell beyond the canopy. It was almost picturesque as he made the slightest movement to catch a snowflake in his hand, reaching out slowly towards…
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