Roswell Fanatics

I've always felt that if the characters in the story are American, they should sound/speak American, no matter whether the writer is from the US or not and vice versa (e.g. for British characters). But I understand that it is difficult if you're not familiar with local phrases and lanugage differen...

People tend to write in the dialect of English that they're most familiar with. You seldom see the word "leant" used in the American dialect, though you do see knelt or dealt and a few others. But "leant" is often used in the UK to mean "leaned". Spellcheck is fine wit...

Yet that's still no excuse for grammatical and spelling mistakes like its/it's, whose/who's, affect/effect, etc. That has nothing to do with dialogue. Lets not forget except/accept, lead/led, really/rely, cloth/clothe, breath/breathe, and for some odd reason definitely/defiantly. I'm currently unde...

One thing that pops to mind...mainly because of a beta job that I did the other day...is the fact that people do not always speak in a grammatically correct manner. They trim words. They add non-standard contractions. They even occasionally slur words together, or make up entirely new ones on the f...

The first and third examples are correct. You can say "Woman without her man is lost." Or "Woman, without her man, is lost." They mean exactly the same thing with, or without, punctuation. If you'd had a longer sentence or different example, perhaps you would need the commas. The...