Cruel2BKind
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Pulled the story, wasn't good enough.
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New how-to about grammar
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PervOtaku
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So, you'd like some nitpicks, then?
Your specific example is ending a sentence in a period to depict a flat tone of voice rather than the usual rising pitch, and that's fine.
Okay, you don't seem to have a lot of specific tips in there, just general encouragement. Proper caps, proper quotes, proper punctuation. Watch for run-on sentences. I think the worst of the usual grammar problems besides those is homophones.
http://learnyourdamnhomophones.com/
You probably don't want to go to much into subject-verb agreement, though it's something that can get tricky at times, but it's also something that a lot of readers won't notice if it's wrong because they aren't very good at it either.
I'm pretty sure that needs a comma after going. Things like this, even if you don't pause much in verbal speech, there is still a distinction between clauses in the sentence and that calls for a comma.
My general opinion of this is that dialogue, words spoken by characters, need not be grammatically correct (within reason), since conversational language is filled with slang, shortcuts, and some people just don't know proper grammar. Everything else, the narration, I think should be grammatically correct to the full extent of the knowledge of the author and editors. Though there are certain things, I mean if you spend 10 minutes researching a rule and you're still not quite sure what's considered proper, then it's probably not worth worrying about because too few people will ever notice if you get it "wrong".
Your specific example is ending a sentence in a period to depict a flat tone of voice rather than the usual rising pitch, and that's fine.
Okay, you don't seem to have a lot of specific tips in there, just general encouragement. Proper caps, proper quotes, proper punctuation. Watch for run-on sentences. I think the worst of the usual grammar problems besides those is homophones.
http://learnyourdamnhomophones.com/
You probably don't want to go to much into subject-verb agreement, though it's something that can get tricky at times, but it's also something that a lot of readers won't notice if it's wrong because they aren't very good at it either.
