There is not a single word that would describe those waves, as far as I know. 'Pressure waves' are waves caused by flowing water over an uneven...
Also, your original sentence is just fine in fiction. 'It was the strangest army that I had ever seen: an army of paupers.' The fragment after the...
I had read somewhere that American English uses a capital after a colon, and UK English doesn't.
Hi jannert, and thanks for the welcome. I'm a brand new writer, I have a great deal to learn about writing, and when I think my skillage is up to...
I am completely happy and normal. The fact that I hired a hit-man, to find and eliminate the person who invented the comma, has no bearing on my...
Separate names with a comma.