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I confess: I was a little ambitious with my reading goals in January and didn't finish every book on my list. This month, I'm aiming for something a little more doable!

Have you read any of these titles?

What is on your To Be Read list?

Yesterday, I compared writing to a puzzle. Each word in your sentence should connect to the one on either side.

The way that we put those words together is called SYNTAX.

According to one definition from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, syntax is:

"the way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses)"

As I said yesterday, sometimes you have the words there, but you need to rearrange them. Other times, you might need to choose entirely new words (but that's called "diction," and we'll get to that at a later time!)