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“Help” is a common word, but it can be easy to overuse. If you’re not...
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If you’ve seen both “practice” and “practise” in English writing, you may have wondered what...
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If your school or institution requires you to use the MLA style guide, it’s really...
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The words “councillor” and “councilor” are not only pronounced the same and similarly spelled, they...
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Microsoft Word has lots of useful functions, but if you’ve ever needed to insert a...
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When you’re learning English as a second language, you have a lot to contend with....
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Sentences consist of different variations of the eight parts of speech, including pronouns and antecedents....
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If you learned English in a formal setting, you were probably told not to end...
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Are you familiar with gerunds? These verb-noun hybrids can be confusing because they look like...
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We’ve all heard of the automated online proofreading services, Grammarly and Ginger. They check your...
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Some words in English are so common that we might easily forget which part of...
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Whether you’re a student, a professional, or somewhere in between who writes content regularly, you...
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