There is a rather clever grammar joke I like, although it’s very old.
Why did the Judge hand the prisoner a full stop? It ended their sentence.
This leads on to our discussion of sentence structure. Learning this will mean you don’t have to use Grammarly so much.
When we write – there are two ways we form a sentence, active and passive.
In active voice style you start with the subject, as in the person writing or who it is about. In the middle is the verb explaining what the person was doing.
Finally, the object – what it has been done to. An example of this is “I’m going to the shop.”
The passive voice reverses this – the object is first, verb is second, subject is third. So the same sentence above would be “the shop is where I’m going.”
If you need help getting words right , I recommend using Grammarly.
However, what it can’t do is tell you if your message is going to be offensive. That’s why you need to be aware of cultural issues within your audience.
Typically, you don’t know who is reading, so it is best to avoid offending anyone.
If an opinion is against another group and the wrong person saw it, you could be in trouble. There is no guarantee that you wouldn’t.
This is one area where you can’t be too careful. Just because one disabled person laughed at an ableist joke, does not mean others will.
So the action here is to choose words carefully, and don’t forget the structure.
Beth writes 