Robert Lee Brewer gives us some grammar tips:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/shook-vs-shaked-vs-shaken-grammar-rules
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes editing Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. He's the author of Solving the World's Problems, Smash Poetry Journal, and The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets.
Bobbie Christmas in her book, Purge Your Prose of Problems says:
We say ice tea, but the correct word is iced tea. Jane sipped iced tea.
Today in movies and on television, people often use the wrong pronoun and in the wrong order. Bobbie Christmas explains this in Purge Your Prose of Problems.
Incorrect: Send the letter to George and I. (This is often used wrong in media)
Correct: Send the letter to George and me. (Think - Send the letter to me.)
Incorrect: Us women believe in liberation.
Correct: We women believe in liberation.
Incorrect: Send the letter to me and George.
Correct: Send the letter to George and me.
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