Recent content by Guido

Okay. I will try to read the Bible for the right purposes only, and try to learn to write better from practice and resources on writing. However, I still want to write in cadenced, sophisticated writing styles, in some of the writings I may want to write.

Over the years, though I have not read the King James Bible in that time consistently, except at certain periods of time, I have gotten progressively better at understanding it. But I still struggle to fully comprehend much of it. I have desired to understand it fully for two reasons, one, that...

Thank you all for answering my question. Also, I was not declaring it wrong to use nominalizations and sophisticated sentence structures, but expressing my desire to emulate these characteristics of the Bible, (I was talking about the original languages, but thinking in particular about...

In Philipppians in the KJV, which is recognized as a word-for-word" translation, it says, There are three nouns here which express actions: defence, confirmation, and partaker. "Bonds" might also be an action but doesn't appear to be a nominalization. I'm not sure if "partaker" is a...

A long time now, I have known that the original manuscripts of the Bible (I don't know the original languages.) often used nouns to express actions, in places where a verb could have easily been used. Such wording is discouraged by style guides of modern English prose, which offer principles for...