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iii. Third person: This is the form in which most books are written. It is written out of a “he/she” perspective. The narrator can be omniscient (knows everything happening everywhere) ...

ii. Second person: This person is very rare. It is written out of the perspective of a “you”. You usually find it in interactive books like the “Choose Your Own ...

III) GRAMMATICAL PERSON i. First person: When you write in the first person, you write out of the perspective of a “me”. This is most useful for showing the emotions ...

ii. Tense Usage: In writing a novel, you will probably mainly be using the past simple or present simple tense. Writing a novel in the present is invitingly simple. More ...

II) TENSES i. Most common tenses: 1.) Present simple: This is exactly what is happening now. However, dependent on context, it may also indicate habitual activity, e.g. "We go to ...

xiii. Capital letters: 1.) Capitalize the first letter in a sentence. 2.) Capitalize the pronoun I. 3.) Capitalize names of people, countries and nationalities, religions, deities and holy writings, b

xii. Ellipses: 1.) Bet you don’t know how to make a real ellipsis! Nobody can agree—some style manuals prefer a space between each dot; others call for no spaces. The ...

xi. Parenthesis: 1.) Use parentheses () to include de-emphasized material or extra information: a. When the parenthetical is inside a sentence, use no punctuation to offset it, except for a ...

x. Quotation marks: 1.) Quotation marks are always used in pairs to enclose words or sentences. They can be used to quote the names of songs, novels, poems etc., usually ...

ix. Exclamation mark: 1.) Exclamation marks are usually avoided in prose except in dialogue, and has been described by F. Scott Fitzgerald as “laughing at your own jokes”. Consider: He ...

viii. Question mark: 1.) Question marks are used to end direct questions: a. Tag questions: We should have been there long ago, shouldn’t we? There were many vampire novels, weren’t ...

vii. Apostrophe: 1.) Apostrophes can be used to form contractions of words such as don’t, would’ve, they’d , and I’m. 2.) Apostrophes form possessive forms: a. When the modified word ...

vi. Colon: 1.) Use a colon to precede a list or an explanation, when the clause preceding it is independent, or can stand on its own. Here are some examples: ...

v. Semicolon: 1.) Semicolons are used to link closely related independent clauses, sometimes accompanied by a transitional phrase or conjunctive adverb (e.g. also, however, otherwise, consequently, in

iv. Hyphen: 1.) Hyphens are used to join two or more words that form a single adjective: well-chosen words hot-headed men 2.) Hyphens join compound numbers: thirty-four sixty-two 3.) Use ...