So often, when reading children’s writing, I come across the word, and. When I challenge the children about it, they tell me it’s a connecting word. Well, I say it’s an adding word. It adds sentences together, like a sticky, gunky goo, making them grow longer and longer, and windier and windier.
What’s wrong with a full stop? Often, replacing and with a full stop adds pace to a story. It increases the sense of action. Give me short, snappy sentences – any day!
Vinny Jones quite impressed me when he first came in the Big Brother House. He’d obviously decided to be mister nice guy to improve his public image. He even stood in and stopped a bullying situation before it got out of hand.
But he’s not managed to keep it up. He comes across as the most irritating, self absorbed bully.
I only worry that the people who vote on Big Brother are the binge culture louts who approve of that kind of behaviour, and that they’ll let him win. We shall see.
I heard this word used on the radio to describe the conditions the people of Haiti have had put upon them by the earthquake. It struck me as a very powerful word.
Immiseration the imposition of poverty, not something you would want to do to anyone unless you were really mean or plain careless.
Learn a new word every day.
Repeat it and remind yourself what it means at least three times in a day.
Try to use the word in conversation or writing today.
Get a dictionary and look words up.