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Basic Grammar for Audio Writers Part 4 – Style and Sentence Construction

Universal Style for Audio Writers Strunk and White’s little pamphlet on style has been in use for decades and provides helpful principles for writers.  Their guide is a classic and is full of useful advice.  The advice should be followed judiciously, however.  Sometimes characterisation requires us to break these rules (some characters are meant to […]

Basic Punctuation for Audio Writers

This week we turn our attention to the practical use of punctuation and how understanding it can help improve our writing.  Punctuation isn’t grammar.  But it does govern how we express grammar and, if we are audio dramatists, how a line and its meaning is communicated to an actor.  It is the writer’s responsibility to […]

Basic Grammar for Audio Writers Part 3 – Constructing Sentences

This week we turn our attention to the practical use of grammar and how understanding it can help improve our writing.  Sentence Types Declarative – Makes a statement about something. Interrogatory – Asks a question. Imperative – Provides an instruction. Exclamatory – Makes an exclamation. The following exchange contains each of these.  But in any […]

Basic Grammar for Audio Writers Part 2 – More Definitions

This continues my series on the basics of grammar for audio writers. We looked, in the last essay, at the traditional parts of speech and some ways that understanding them helps us to diagnose problems in our scripts.  This week we are looking at some other ways to think about and classify words. Simple, compound […]

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