This post focuses on mistaken spellings of the past tense forms of lay and lie. Two verbs that give many native speakers fits are to lay and to lie. I’ve written more than one post to explain how lay is transitive and lie is intransitive. MORE
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. So to that end, I will be releasing a new set of productivity forms every month. The post New Productivity Forms: June 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. MORE
So they''re poking out on this month''s forms, too. The post New Productivity Forms: April 2015 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. We''re all sick of winter. The first sign of spring where I live is the daffodils poking their cheery yellow heads out. MORE
In 2014 I decided I wanted to release monthly productivity forms with a seasonal theme. Fun tools make it more likely I will use them, and honestly, I get bored with the plain old print and line forms. MORE
Most businesses have some type of contact form on their website as an alternative to posting their email address publicly. This form will have been designed to collate all the information that is required to deal with a customer query or follow up on a potential lead. MORE
Many common words and phrases are identical except for a strategic letter space — apart and “a part” come to mind — and though knowing which form to use in a sentence is often obvious (as in that example), the difference can be subtle. If it’s hard to decide which form to employ, try this test: If you can insert an adjective between a and hold , the two-word form is appropriate. The latter form is correct in sentences such as “We’re all ready for the party.”. MORE
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. Fun tools make me more productive) So to that end, I will be releasing a new set of productivity forms every month. MORE
Because of the modern preference to avoid hyphenating words as much as possible, newly created compounds tend to develop closed forms earlier than they might have in the past. Compound nouns are formed by combining different parts of speech. MORE
Note that each section includes examples of positive-declarative, negative-declarative, and interrogative forms. A sentence in the simple-past form describes an event that occurred in the past: “They agreed with us.”. Notice that in the first sentence, the verb form of drive is in past tense, but in the other examples, did does the heavy lifting of indicating the tense, so drive remains in present tense. Original Post: 9 Forms of the Past Tense. MORE
To be successful at anything then, we need to form good habits that support our endeavors and carry us through to our goal’s end. This consistent and repeated act of choosing is what forms the habit. example : If you want to form a habit of flossing your teeth, place a calendar beside your bathroom mirror and place an X on it every day that you floss. Habits are formed when we do the same things consistently over time. Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. MORE
These forms remind me that I can get through things quickly and be on my way to the beach! The post New Productivity Forms: June 2015 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. MORE
From my experience I conclude that a child of eleven or twelve is capable of mastering the irregular verb forms. For example, the old past forms of help – holp and holpen –now have the regular forms helped and helped. Related post: Beware of the Irregular Past Participle Forms. MORE
At least seven strategies for calling attention to one or more words exist, but few of them are appropriate for a document that one wishes to consider professional looking. The purposes and relative merits of various approaches are discussed below. All-Caps. MORE
When you are running a full-fledge business website, you need to give emphasis to one of the most important – yet often neglected – features of your website: Your online forms. Increasing your contact form conversion rate should be your top-most priority. MORE
In 2014 I decided I wanted to release monthly productivity forms with a seasonal theme. Fun tools make it more likely I will use them, and honestly, I get bored with the plain old print and line forms. MORE
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. Fun tools make me more productive) So to that end, I will be releasing a new set of productivity forms every month. Productivity expire form MORE
“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals–this alone is worth the struggle.” William Penn Writing is a huge part of my life. MORE
What form does yours take? Each month we feature a question from our friends at Business Management Daily’s Admin Pro Forum. Please enjoy engaging in a conversation over this month’s question. Question: “Everyone seems to have a different way of creating their to-do lists. I’ve always been interested in how they go about it, and what their lists actually look like. Am I the only one who just scrawls things in a big notebook and messily crosses them out? MORE
The post New Productivity Forms: August 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. With summer coming to an end, I am reminded that the ocean is a stone''s throw away. MORE
Good habits seem to be very hard to form while bad habits just sneak up on us when we least expect them. Good and bad habits actually form the same way. As a Certified Fitness Coach and 100% Vegan, let me give you some tips on how to form habits. MORE
Event Feedback form. The post Event feedback form appeared first on Practically Perfect PA. Congratulations, your event is finished. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and now you can go back to your day job! MORE
By coming into stillness, you can begin to experience a truly radical form of relaxation. It’s breaking out of our habitual attachment to non-relaxing forms of “relaxation.” At the end of a long day, you probably want nothing more than to relax. MORE
In questions that contain two verb forms, the subject is sandwiched between them: Can you help me? Questions do not follow usual subject-verb order. In questions that contain only one verb, the verb precedes the subject: Are you my friend? Have you any wool? MORE
It takes a bare minimum of 21 days to form a habit that lasts (usually closer to 66 days), and if you do it right – you could be on the fast-track to building several great habits and approaching your big “WHY” goal. You’ll work out one day. You’ll learn Japanese. MORE
If I told you today that to reach your pinnacle of success, you not only have to be confident, but you have to be certain that your success is an imminent destiny, would you consider that as arrogance? But what’s wrong with acceptance? Being confident is amazing. MORE
This month''s forms feature a snow-covered landscape and a cool color scheme to fit the month. The post New Productivity Forms: January 2015 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. January is about cold and snow. MORE
An irregular verb is one that does not follow the standard progression for various forms. Irregular verbs take the same form in three of these categories, but their simple-past and past-participle forms are irregular, and there lies the difficulty. MORE
Many compound nouns present a challenge when it comes to determining how to convert them from singular to plural form. However, similar terms are straightforward: “Secretary-elect” becomes “secretaries-elect,” and the plural form of “heir apparent” is “heirs apparent.”. And what of compoundlike words formed from the combination of a noun and the suffix -ful ? Original Post: How to Form Plurals of Compound Nouns. MORE
In 2014 I decided I wanted to release monthly productivity forms with a seasonal theme. Fun tools make it more likely I will use them, and honestly, I get bored with the plain old print and line forms. MORE
The post New Productivity Forms: July 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. The ice cream truck has been crawling the neighborhood every day as I get home from work, playing "Turkey in the Straw" over and over. So to celebrate that joy of summer, have an ice cream bar! MORE
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. Fun tools make me more productive) So to that end, I will be releasing a new set of productivity forms every month. MORE
T his afternoon I went to my Mailchimp to make a change to a signup form. At the forms list, I scrolled down and saw “Subscriber popup.” Yep, Mailchimp has (finally) added popup forms. In the meantime, here are my first impressions of the new Mailchimp popup forms. MORE
Note: The positive, comparative, and superlative forms of strong are strong , stronger , strongest. Here are the conventional rules for forming the comparative form of a one-syllable adjective in English. Original Post: Forming the Comparative of One-syllable Adjectives. MORE
A reader asks, What is the difference in form and forum ? Regarding etymology, the noun form derives from Latin forma , whose primary meaning is shape or configuration. One speaks of “the human form,” “a form of behavior,” “the forms of a verb,” and so forth. MORE
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. The post New Productivity Forms: September 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. Fun tools make me more productive). This month: Pencils. MORE
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. This month: Winter Snowglobe Forms. The post New Productivity Forms: December 2014 – Winter Snowglobe appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. MORE
English preserves a few terms derived from French in which an e is appended to the end of the masculine form of some words to refer to a woman, including fiancee and confidante. Conversely — and obscurely — a man who divorces his wife is a divorce (like the feminine form, pronounced “di-vor-say” and, in print, with an acute accent mark over the e). The word czar is the more modern Russian form — the older variant is tsar — of Caesar.) MORE
This month the forms show a pumpkin and fall leaves in honor of the bounty of the harvest. The post New Productivity Forms: November 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. November brings Thanksgiving to the US. As a time to celebrate all the things we have harvested during the year, and a time to reflect on our blessings, Thanksgiving is a time of contemplation and gratitude. More great content can be found on the site at Simple Productivity Blog., MORE
Now, I’ll focus on the reader’s main concern: the use of the apostrophe to form a plural. In deference to another reader, who has asked me to supply corrected versions of cited errors, here are the correct forms: 20 Craft Ideas for Kids. MORE
Stand-up : A form of comedy delivery in which a comic entertains an audience with jokes and humorous stories. Original Post: 20 Types and Forms of Humor. Humor comes in many flavors, any of which may appeal to one person but not to another, and which may be enjoyed in alternation or in combination. Here are names and descriptions of the varieties of comic expression: 1. MORE
Original Post: 11 Forms of Word Patronage to Forgo. Various specimens of a curious class of self-referential expressions often find their way into spoken and written discourse. Such locutions in speech are nigh inevitable, because spontaneous communication frequently necessitates verbal placeholders, and the speaker’s self-consciousness or self-regard demands self-induced back-pedaling or backslapping. MORE
The object form me is required. The subject form you is required. Reflexive and intensive forms have specific functions. A pronoun that ends in -self or -selves is either reflexive or intensive. MORE
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JANUARY 17, 2014
Most businesses have some type of contact form on their website as an alternative to posting their email address publicly. This form will have been designed to collate all the information that is required to deal with a customer query or follow up on a potential lead.
Daily Writing Tips
JULY 25, 2014
Now, I’ll focus on the reader’s main concern: the use of the apostrophe to form a plural. In deference to another reader, who has asked me to supply corrected versions of cited errors, here are the correct forms: 20 Craft Ideas for Kids.
Dumb Little Man
JULY 25, 2011
By coming into stillness, you can begin to experience a truly radical form of relaxation. It’s breaking out of our habitual attachment to non-relaxing forms of “relaxation.” At the end of a long day, you probably want nothing more than to relax.
Dumb Little Man
JULY 11, 2017
Good habits seem to be very hard to form while bad habits just sneak up on us when we least expect them. Good and bad habits actually form the same way. As a Certified Fitness Coach and 100% Vegan, let me give you some tips on how to form habits.
Office Dynamics
APRIL 5, 2017
What form does yours take? Each month we feature a question from our friends at Business Management Daily’s Admin Pro Forum. Please enjoy engaging in a conversation over this month’s question. Question: “Everyone seems to have a different way of creating their to-do lists. I’ve always been interested in how they go about it, and what their lists actually look like. Am I the only one who just scrawls things in a big notebook and messily crosses them out?
Daily Writing Tips
AUGUST 6, 2015
In questions that contain two verb forms, the subject is sandwiched between them: Can you help me? Questions do not follow usual subject-verb order. In questions that contain only one verb, the verb precedes the subject: Are you my friend? Have you any wool?
Daily Writing Tips
JULY 21, 2015
This post focuses on mistaken spellings of the past tense forms of lay and lie. Two verbs that give many native speakers fits are to lay and to lie. I’ve written more than one post to explain how lay is transitive and lie is intransitive.
Simple Productivity Blog
AUGUST 9, 2014
The post New Productivity Forms: August 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. With summer coming to an end, I am reminded that the ocean is a stone''s throw away.
Daily Writing Tips
MAY 27, 2014
From my experience I conclude that a child of eleven or twelve is capable of mastering the irregular verb forms. For example, the old past forms of help – holp and holpen –now have the regular forms helped and helped. Related post: Beware of the Irregular Past Participle Forms.
Daily Writing Tips
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Stand-up : A form of comedy delivery in which a comic entertains an audience with jokes and humorous stories. Original Post: 20 Types and Forms of Humor. Humor comes in many flavors, any of which may appeal to one person but not to another, and which may be enjoyed in alternation or in combination. Here are names and descriptions of the varieties of comic expression: 1.
Daily Writing Tips
JULY 7, 2016
At least seven strategies for calling attention to one or more words exist, but few of them are appropriate for a document that one wishes to consider professional looking. The purposes and relative merits of various approaches are discussed below. All-Caps.
Dumb Little Man
AUGUST 23, 2013
If I told you today that to reach your pinnacle of success, you not only have to be confident, but you have to be certain that your success is an imminent destiny, would you consider that as arrogance? But what’s wrong with acceptance? Being confident is amazing.
Daily Writing Tips
OCTOBER 27, 2013
An irregular verb is one that does not follow the standard progression for various forms. Irregular verbs take the same form in three of these categories, but their simple-past and past-participle forms are irregular, and there lies the difficulty.
The Solopreneur Life
JANUARY 30, 2015
T his afternoon I went to my Mailchimp to make a change to a signup form. At the forms list, I scrolled down and saw “Subscriber popup.” Yep, Mailchimp has (finally) added popup forms. In the meantime, here are my first impressions of the new Mailchimp popup forms.
Small Business CEO
JANUARY 29, 2014
When you are running a full-fledge business website, you need to give emphasis to one of the most important – yet often neglected – features of your website: Your online forms. Increasing your contact form conversion rate should be your top-most priority.
Daily Writing Tips
MAY 19, 2015
Because of the modern preference to avoid hyphenating words as much as possible, newly created compounds tend to develop closed forms earlier than they might have in the past. Compound nouns are formed by combining different parts of speech.
Daily Writing Tips
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Note that each section includes examples of positive-declarative, negative-declarative, and interrogative forms. A sentence in the simple-past form describes an event that occurred in the past: “They agreed with us.”. Notice that in the first sentence, the verb form of drive is in past tense, but in the other examples, did does the heavy lifting of indicating the tense, so drive remains in present tense. Original Post: 9 Forms of the Past Tense.
Productivity Bits
OCTOBER 1, 2011
To be successful at anything then, we need to form good habits that support our endeavors and carry us through to our goal’s end. This consistent and repeated act of choosing is what forms the habit. example : If you want to form a habit of flossing your teeth, place a calendar beside your bathroom mirror and place an X on it every day that you floss. Habits are formed when we do the same things consistently over time. Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits.
Daily Writing Tips
DECEMBER 16, 2014
The object form me is required. The subject form you is required. Reflexive and intensive forms have specific functions. A pronoun that ends in -self or -selves is either reflexive or intensive.
Dumb Little Man
JUNE 9, 2013
“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals–this alone is worth the struggle.” William Penn Writing is a huge part of my life.
Daily Writing Tips
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
Note: The positive, comparative, and superlative forms of strong are strong , stronger , strongest. Here are the conventional rules for forming the comparative form of a one-syllable adjective in English. Original Post: Forming the Comparative of One-syllable Adjectives.
Simple Productivity Blog
AUGUST 1, 2015
In 2014 I decided I wanted to release monthly productivity forms with a seasonal theme. Fun tools make it more likely I will use them, and honestly, I get bored with the plain old print and line forms.
Daily Writing Tips
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
Many common words and phrases are identical except for a strategic letter space — apart and “a part” come to mind — and though knowing which form to use in a sentence is often obvious (as in that example), the difference can be subtle. If it’s hard to decide which form to employ, try this test: If you can insert an adjective between a and hold , the two-word form is appropriate. The latter form is correct in sentences such as “We’re all ready for the party.”.
Simple Productivity Blog
APRIL 4, 2015
So they''re poking out on this month''s forms, too. The post New Productivity Forms: April 2015 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. We''re all sick of winter. The first sign of spring where I live is the daffodils poking their cheery yellow heads out.
Simple Productivity Blog
MARCH 7, 2015
In 2014 I decided I wanted to release monthly productivity forms with a seasonal theme. Fun tools make it more likely I will use them, and honestly, I get bored with the plain old print and line forms.
Simple Productivity Blog
JUNE 6, 2015
These forms remind me that I can get through things quickly and be on my way to the beach! The post New Productivity Forms: June 2015 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog.
Simple Productivity Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2015
In 2014 I decided I wanted to release monthly productivity forms with a seasonal theme. Fun tools make it more likely I will use them, and honestly, I get bored with the plain old print and line forms.
Simple Productivity Blog
JANUARY 3, 2015
This month''s forms feature a snow-covered landscape and a cool color scheme to fit the month. The post New Productivity Forms: January 2015 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. January is about cold and snow.
Simple Productivity Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2014
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. Fun tools make me more productive) So to that end, I will be releasing a new set of productivity forms every month.
Simple Productivity Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. The post New Productivity Forms: September 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. Fun tools make me more productive). This month: Pencils.
Simple Productivity Blog
JUNE 14, 2014
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. So to that end, I will be releasing a new set of productivity forms every month. The post New Productivity Forms: June 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog.
Simple Productivity Blog
JULY 12, 2014
The post New Productivity Forms: July 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. The ice cream truck has been crawling the neighborhood every day as I get home from work, playing "Turkey in the Straw" over and over. So to celebrate that joy of summer, have an ice cream bar!
Simple Productivity Blog
MAY 10, 2014
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. Fun tools make me more productive) So to that end, I will be releasing a new set of productivity forms every month.
Daily Writing Tips
APRIL 22, 2012
Many compound nouns present a challenge when it comes to determining how to convert them from singular to plural form. However, similar terms are straightforward: “Secretary-elect” becomes “secretaries-elect,” and the plural form of “heir apparent” is “heirs apparent.”. And what of compoundlike words formed from the combination of a noun and the suffix -ful ? Original Post: How to Form Plurals of Compound Nouns.
Daily Writing Tips
DECEMBER 12, 2014
A reader asks, What is the difference in form and forum ? Regarding etymology, the noun form derives from Latin forma , whose primary meaning is shape or configuration. One speaks of “the human form,” “a form of behavior,” “the forms of a verb,” and so forth.
Simple Productivity Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2014
One of the things I wanted to do this year is to release productivity forms more often. This month: Winter Snowglobe Forms. The post New Productivity Forms: December 2014 – Winter Snowglobe appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog.
Daily Writing Tips
JUNE 7, 2011
English preserves a few terms derived from French in which an e is appended to the end of the masculine form of some words to refer to a woman, including fiancee and confidante. Conversely — and obscurely — a man who divorces his wife is a divorce (like the feminine form, pronounced “di-vor-say” and, in print, with an acute accent mark over the e). The word czar is the more modern Russian form — the older variant is tsar — of Caesar.)
Simple Productivity Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2014
This month the forms show a pumpkin and fall leaves in honor of the bounty of the harvest. The post New Productivity Forms: November 2014 appeared first on Simple Productivity Blog. November brings Thanksgiving to the US. As a time to celebrate all the things we have harvested during the year, and a time to reflect on our blessings, Thanksgiving is a time of contemplation and gratitude. More great content can be found on the site at Simple Productivity Blog.,
Daily Writing Tips
APRIL 16, 2012
Original Post: 11 Forms of Word Patronage to Forgo. Various specimens of a curious class of self-referential expressions often find their way into spoken and written discourse. Such locutions in speech are nigh inevitable, because spontaneous communication frequently necessitates verbal placeholders, and the speaker’s self-consciousness or self-regard demands self-induced back-pedaling or backslapping.
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