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Spelling Tips: Neighbour or Neighbor?
When someone writes about people who live near to one another, you may have seen...
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Grammar Tips: A Quick Guide to the Progressive Tenses
If you’re an English speaker, you almost certainly use the progressive (or continuous) tenses every...
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Word Choice: Key vs. Quay
The words ‘key’ and ‘quay’ sound the same. But while ‘key’ has many meanings in...
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Writing Tips: When to Use a Hyphen with the Prefix ‘Ex’
‘Ex’ is a common prefix in English. But how you punctuate this prefix may depend...
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Thesaurus Day: Peter Roget and How to Use a Thesaurus
A good thesaurus – i.e. a book that lists synonyms and antonyms for other words...
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Word Choice: Or, Oar or Ore?
‘Or’, ‘oar’, and ‘ore’ sound identical, but these words have very different meanings. Make sure...
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Spelling Tips: Receive or Recieve?
To draw on the old phrase, is giving better than ‘receiving’ or ‘recieving’? This word...
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Word Choice: Not vs. Knot
Although ‘not’ and ‘knot’ sound the same, they have very different meanings. As a result,...
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What Is the Difference Between a Preface, a Foreword and a Prologue?
There are many ways to introduce a book, including with a preface, a foreword, or a...
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Writing Tips: Latino, Latina or Latinx?
‘Latino’, ‘Latina’, and ‘Latinx’ are all terms used to refer to people of Latin American...
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An Introduction to Assonance and Consonance
Assonance and consonance are important parts of creative writing, especially poetry. Both involve repeating certain...
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Word Choice: Gamble vs. Gambol
It’s easy to mix up words that sound the same, like ‘gamble’ and ‘gambol’, especially...
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