Book Event
Besides, this week, Frances is having a great book event. She’s offered to giveaway a hardcopy of her book to anyone in the continental United States. If you’re outside of the U.S. she’s open to sending a pdf to a winner from this blog. So, here’s all you have to do to win– enter the contest on rafflecopter and I’ll contact you if you’re chosen.
Take a look at France’s WEBSITE, visit her on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter, and Pinterest. And if you want to up your chances of winning, check out other hosting sites on her tour schedule. She’s everywhere!
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New Book
TOUGH GIRL by Libby Heily is here.
Danger lurks everywhere in eleven year old Reggie’s world—from the bully next door to the unwanted attentions of a creep at school. Raised by her mentally ill mother, Reggie is left to fend for herself in a rough
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Her Grammarness
Few and Less: The rule I knew was USE FEW WHEN YOU CAN COUNT THE NOUN.
- Few agents responded to my query. (Too true.)
- Writers have less time to write these days. (It seems this is also too true!)
Today I hear less for both the count and non-count nouns. What do you prefer? To keep the words distinct or to lose that rule entirely?
- The farther he threw his manuscript, the better he felt.
- The further he delved into his manuscript, the more he lost his original story line. (This happened to me just last month, so I can relate to just how abstract further delving can be!)
Marcia says
I like keeping these distinctions. Without them, both our thinking and writing get fuzzy.
Old Kitty says
Awww poor Reggie!! Hope her inner Tough Girl wins through for her sake and her mother's!!
Yay for your grammar Crown!! Take care
x
Medeia Sharif says
I'd like to read Frances' book.
I've seen Libby everywhere. Congrats to her.
Jemi Fraser says
I don't think I've ever heard anyone use 'less' when they should use 'few' – it would give me the shakes!!!
Beverly Stowe McClure says
Thanks for the great giveaway. The book sounds like a helpful one.
Misha Gericke says
I actually prefer to keep words like Less and few, farther and further separate.
It might just be because using them interchangeably hurts my language ear. 🙂
Gina Gao says
To be honest, I have suffered from not being able to differentiate between grammar terms. I find that grammar is useless if people can understand you.
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DMS says
Thanks for the giveaway! Social media is a great topic for a book!
I can't wait to read Tough Girl. Yeah Libby!
Further and farther are two terms that I still need to work on a bit. I probably need to think about them a little more. 🙂
~Jess
Lexa Cain says
Congrats to Frances Caballo for her new book, and good luck to all the entrants.
Libby Heily's book sounds really creepy and the cover is just right for it! Congrats to her!
"Further" and "farther" always confuse me. I like your rule for it. 🙂
Theresa Milstein says
Wow, Tough Girl sounds like an intense read. I'm looking it up.
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Very cool blog. Interesting posts. 😉
Nice atmosphere guests with you here on the blog. ;]
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Al Diaz says
Differences between further and father were not as clear as they are now. Thanks!
Southpaw says
I do few and less like you do.
Natalie Aguirre says
I'd love to win this book. I'm really into thinking of building my platform and expanding my social networking. Thanks for the giveaway.
Hilary Melton-Butcher says
Hi Lee – I'm definitely on the cards to get the book, as I need Social Media for the A – Z Challenge coming up, as well as for other activities I'll be pursuing during the months to come … so should I be lucky enough to win the pdf version as I'm over that pond – then I'd be delighted. It does sound excellent ..
Grammariness .. I love your examples and I'd like to keep our language as it is .. but life changes … and people are lazy to learn, or appreciate there are differences …
I must remember this bit of your blog posting and make notes as I come across funnies …
Cheers for now – Hilary
Barbara Watson says
So much grammar-ness I don't know…
E.J. Wesley says
Yay for Libby! 🙂 I'll definitely enter the giveaway, too. Would love to have a copy!
EJ
Elizabeth Seckman says
I'm always appreciative of grammar tweaks. And I do need to read that book. I know I am not nearly as effective as I could be.
Angela Brown says
Further and farther still give me the twisty-confusies. Okay, there are quite a few grammar related things that do that lol!!
Tough Girl has that tone of dark-adventure-into-overcoming that tends to call to me. Will have to check it out.
Alex J. Cavanaugh says
I interchange further and farther, although one of my critique partners made me change from further to farther in my last manuscript. (And since that was Cassie Mae, I wasn't about to object!)