An author among us

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Re: An author among us

@TS

Agar aisi baat hai to phir aap English main kaisay likhtay hain ?

BTW, who wrote the book description ?
There is this line “They marooned him in a Godforsaken place – a place from where no one could ever escaped.”

‘Could’ and ‘escaped’ can’t be used together in a sentence (unless you have the word ‘have’ in between).
That is a basic grammar error.
Also I don’t know if I have seen the word godforsaken with a capital G before.

I haven’t read the book or a sample of your writing but did you have an editor for your book ?

Also, have you written before ? Like articles, short-stories etc ?

I don’t mean to give you a hard time, and I may be presuming too much from the book description, but if there are grammar errors or other language usage issues in the book, it will not do well.

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**** Godforsaken **

There is no definitive rule for capitalisation of Godforsaken*; and when there is no rule, we use our rules. It is up to the writer’s belief that if he thinks there is only one supreme God.*

In this context, however, the reference to God is rather casual, and there are those who would deny that such phrases refer to the one supreme God at all. Lowercasing God in such phrases is an attempt to obscure the reference to God.**

No stylebook clarifies the capitalisation rule for Godforsaken. Even CMOS allows you to write both ways. Here we come up with our own beliefs.

I think, you assumed that I was ignorant of the importance of capitalisation.

P.S. Writers sometimes do fragments deliberately according to the demand of the context, and you cannot say that the writer made an error. Now don’t tell me you pointed out some fragment sentences to any author.

Let’s play a game?

You only have to write two simple sentences (scenes) in English. As I cannot explain you a scene, I’m going to write it for you in Urdu. ****

***Very simple: ***

1- Akbar office mein kursi par betha kaam kar raha tha. Sania dinning table k peechay kursi pr bethi Akbar k baray mein soch rahi thi.

2- Aftaab dheray dheray siRhiyan utar raha tha.