Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Where does grammar begin and end? You got to know where you want to go, and why you want to go there.
It’s not just about analysing sentences, it’s about communicatively understanding why the sentences are being used — from a semantic perspective, it’s about what the sentences mean, and from a pragmatic perspective, what’s the effect of using these sentences on other people. That’s when grammar goes out in the real world.
some of us writers start out wanting to write excellent fiction (or nonfiction, in my case) and then get stuck because that’s . . . the wrong starting point? At the end of the day, the writing is just a vehicle for something else—some feeling about the world or human experience that you want to suggest or precipitate in your readers.