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Vocabulary Tips: Alternatives to ‘But’ for Academic Writing

You’ll use some terms frequently in your written work. ‘But’ is one of these words:...

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The Language of Love (Valentine’s Day Etymology)

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we hope you’re all writing loving notes to...

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Grammar Tips: The Secrets of Parallelism

One aspect of writing that even native English speakers sometimes overlook is parallelism. This refers...

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Feathered Friends (5 Phrases in English Inspired by Birds)

To coincide with this weekend’s Big Garden Birdwatch – an annual event organised by the...

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Sentence Types: Simple, Complex and Compound

Expressing yourself clearly in writing is easier if you know how various sentence types are...

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Word Choice: There, Their or They’re?

There are few terms more commonly mixed up than ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’. And when...

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Punctuation Tips: How to Use Commas Correctly

For such a common punctuation mark, the comma is a tricky fellow. Certainly, this is...

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An Etymological Christmas

‘Tis the season to be jolly (fa la la la la, la la la la)...

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Word Choice: Explicit vs. Implicit

Antonyms (i.e. words with opposite meanings) often look similar. Take ‘explicit’ and ‘implicit’, for example:...

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Word Choice: Chord vs. Cord

Since they sound identical when spoken, it’s easy to confuse the words ‘chord’ and ‘cord’....

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Pernickety Tattie-Bogles (6 Scottish Words on St Andrew’s Day)

Greetings to readers in (or from) Scotland! We reserve this extra welcome for those north...

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Word Choice: Extent vs. Extend

Usually, our ‘Word Choice’ posts cover homophones (i.e. words that sound alike despite being spelled...

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