PinnedInAbout Me StoriesbyKaren DeGroot Carter·Oct 29, 2020About Me — Karen DeGroot CarterAuthor. Editor. Poet. Mom. Also a total grammar geek and word nerd.A response icon24A response icon24
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·1d agoDifferent Types of “ing” WordsAnd which to avoid to help make your writing tighter
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·2d agoTips to Help You Use Commas Correctly with the Subordinating Conjunction “While”And why the rules differ depending on meaning and placement in a sentence
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·6d agoHow 8 Popular Idioms Came to BeFrom breaking the ice to burying the hatchet, these phrases reflect on human behaviors since medieval timesA response icon3A response icon3
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·Jun 30Tricks to Help You Fix Broken SentencesEspecially those that start with a participial phrase
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·Jun 18Different Types of Prepositions — and the Extra Words None of Them NeedPLUS the preposition-at-the-end-of-a-sentence debateA response icon3A response icon3
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·Jun 9Considering Conditional SentencesIncluding the different types and how to punctuate them correctlyA response icon1A response icon1
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·Jun 3How to Correctly Create Connections with ConjunctionsIncluding when a comma is — and isn’t — needed before one of these nifty little wordsA response icon5A response icon5
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·May 30Subordinate Clauses SimplifiedIncluding how to punctuate them correctly in your writingA response icon1A response icon1
InWriters’ BlokkebyKaren DeGroot Carter·May 26When and When Not to Use Hyphens After Certain PrefixesIncluding how AP and Chicago style differ on this frontA response icon2A response icon2
