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Ah, the English language, will you ever stop confusing us? Why, for instance, would anyone...
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No matter what you’re studying, at some point in your academic career you’ll find yourself...
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While it’s important to use consistent terminology in academic writing, this applies primarily to technical...
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Writing in grammatical sentences helps you to express yourself clearly, but there’s more to sentence...
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One of the most common problems our customers have is how to use the word...
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It can be tricky to know which word to use, especially when using homophones (words...
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The use of hyphens and dashes in writing can seem an arcane mystery whose secrets...
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Ellipses are punctuation marks that are useful in academic writing, where there is sometimes a...
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I was walking down the street the other day, when a man with a mad...
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Homonyms are words that sound identical but differ in meaning. As you might have already...
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Back in Ancient Rome, the Latin word centuria meant “group of one hundred.” It was...
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Knowing which words to capitalize can be a tricky business since there are dozens of...
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