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Intuitive Grammar - Here, There, They're, Their, and Everywhere

2/24/2014

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How can you tell whether to use there, they're, or their? 
By remembering three easy cheats:

1.) There has the word here in it, so if you mean the opposite of here, use there.

2.) They're is the contracted form of they are (the apostrophe stands in for the a in are — see my post about apostrophes), so if you mean they are, use they're.

3.) Their is the only one left, so it should be easy to remember, but if you must have a cheat for it, here it is: Their heir is going to inherit a lot of money. If your word means they own or possess something, then use their.
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Their heir
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Review of Fallen Angel Plus a Contest!

2/19/2014

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Lisa Swinton has written a sweet romantic story set in Milan, Italy.  The engaging characters, intriguing family situations, and the foreign setting all combine to make this an enjoyable read. 

Antonio is a sweet, likeable guy who doesn't quite believe in the love-at-first-site story his mom tells of her relationship with his father. That is, until he sees a beautiful gelato-slurping woman across the street. Alas, however, they are not to meet yet as she promptly gets struck by a motorcycle, is whisked off to the hospital, and wakes up not knowing who she (or anyone else) is. Luckily, Antonio is there to describe what her lovely face looked like before the accident to a police sketch artist, which helps to locate her family. Also lucky for her, Antonio commits to volunteering for her care and rehabilitation.

He has an ulterior motive, however, and that is to see if she will fall in love with him as he has fallen for her, before her family intervenes and takes her back to her posh life. As her memory returns, Renatta finds that she is not the same person she was before the accident and she is not willing to blindly follow all that her mother has decided for her future, including marriage to the rich and handsome Marcello.

I enjoyed the depth of the characters that Swinton created in this story. Although one would like to mistrust playboy Stefano, dislike pushy Marcello, and hate Renatta’s controlling mother, Swinton has made them complex enough to show their likeable, or at least vulnerable, sides.

The setting and interspersed Italian words made me long to visit Milan; I could almost taste the gelato that Renatta so enjoyed throughout the story. I’d recommend this sweet story to anyone who likes romance and yearns for love to triumph over expediency.

Fallen Angel
 
Antonio does not believe in love at first sight until he sees her fall into a street in Milan and get hit by a motorcycle. Compelled to know if she can return his affection, he becomes Renatta’s hospital volunteer only to learn that the accident erased her memory. Together they must discover her past, present and future. In the way of happily ever after stand her opera career, tyrannical mother, and fiancé.  Antonio must win Renatta’s heart before she bends to the will of her mother and marries Marcello.  Failure means a lifetime of loneliness, for love at first sight never happens twice.  
You can buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Fallen-Angel-Lisa-Swinton-ebook/dp/B00HX4L38E/ref=la_B00HXNXDCO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390338367&sr=1-1    
About the Author
Lisa Swinton caught the romance bug early by way of fairy tales and hasn’t been able to cure it since. Instead, she feeds her addiction with romance novels and films. In between being a doctor’s wife and mother of two, she occasionally puts her B.A. in Musical Theater to good use via community theater, church choir and teaching the art of singing. In her elusive spare time she enjoys researching her family tree and baking (especially with chocolate). She loves to travel, Jane Austen, and all things Italian. In her next life, she plans to be a professional organizer
 
 
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Intuitive Grammar - The Lofty Apostrophe

2/17/2014

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The Comma in the Sky
Ah, the apostrophe. How many ways can one misuse it? Apparently, quite a few. Here are a few examples of mistakes I've seen:
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Johns dog was named Spot.

Spot wagged it's tail.


"Its going to be a good day." he said.


"Your a good dog."


John offered some dog biscuit's to Spot.
 



Did you spot ( ;-) ) the mistakes? If not, it might help to have a quick refresher course on when to use apostrophes.

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