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Grammar Tips: Looking Back at the Past Tense

Are you feeling nostalgic? Do you feel a need to talk about the past? Are...

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Word Choice: Formally vs. Formerly

And so we return to Homonym Corner, where we untangle two terms that sound similar...

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Grammar Tips: Comparatives and Superlatives

Comparatives and superlatives are used for comparing things (e.g., saying something is “better” than something...

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Word Choice: Faint vs. Feint

This blog post isn’t for the ‘feint of heart’. That’s because there’s no such thing...

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Word Choice: Nauseous vs. Nauseated

Does having your grammar corrected make you queasy? And more importantly, from a proofreading point...

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Grammar Tips: Compound Subjects and Verb Agreement

Most people know that singular nouns take singular verbs (e.g. ‘He runs’), while plural nouns...

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Word Choice: Me, Myself and I

The opening lines from Billie Holiday’s ‘Me, Myself and I’ go as follows: Me, myself...

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The Two Meanings of ‘However’

The word ‘however’ is quite common in academic writing. It also has two meanings, so...

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Word Choice: Born vs. Borne

Matt Damon famously starred in the Bourne films, including The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy,...

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Determiners and Common Mistakes to Avoid

A ‘determiner’ is a word that we can use in front of a noun to...

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Grammar Myths (Infinitives and Conjunctions)

For some, pedantry is all about correcting people’s grammar. But we like to take things...

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Historical Terms: BC-AD or BCE-CE?

In 1995 BC, Pharaoh Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II of Egypt died. In AD 1995, on the...

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