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Our team of experts posts daily about spelling, grammar, punctuation, word choice, referencing, and more to help you better understand the English language and improve your writing skills.

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Sharpen Up Your Writing: A Quick Guide to Sentence Types

Writing in grammatical sentences helps you to express yourself clearly, but there’s more to sentence...

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All About the Word “About”!

One of the most common problems our customers have is how to use the word...

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Word Choice: Cent, Scent or Sent?

It can be tricky to know which word to use, especially when using homophones (words...

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Hyphens and Dashes: The Mystery Revealed

The use of hyphens and dashes in writing can seem an arcane mystery whose secrets...

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What Is an Ellipsis?

Ellipses are punctuation marks that are useful in academic writing, where there is sometimes a...

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6 Reasons You Should Invest in Proofreading

I was walking down the street the other day, when a man with a mad...

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Word Choice: Cord vs. Chord

Homonyms are words that sound identical but differ in meaning. As you might have already...

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Everything You Need to Know about the Word “Century”

Back in Ancient Rome, the Latin word centuria meant “group of one hundred.” It was...

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Capitalization – What and When?

Knowing which words to capitalize can be a tricky business since there are dozens of...

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Proper vs. Common Nouns: When to Capitalize

Most people get confused about which nouns need capitalizing. Why on earth do we use...

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Word Choice: Born vs. Borne

The words “born” and “borne” are spelled almost the same but differ in meaning. Getting...

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Word Choice: Bare vs. Bear

Homophones – similar sounding words that differ in meaning – can cause a lot of...

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