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Grammar Tips: Adverbs and Adjectives

Adverbs and adjectives are both used to modify other words, allowing us to provide more...

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Writing a Professional Email: 5 Top Tips

We’ve heard that, these days, young people communicate primarily via emoji. That’s fine. We can’t...

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Word Choice: Practice vs. Practise

If you’ve ever wondered why Americans think British English is weird, look no further than...

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Noun Types: Abstract, Concrete, Collective and Compound

Most of us know that nouns are naming words. The noun ‘dog’, for instance, is...

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Word Choice: Here vs. Hear

‘Here’ and ‘hear’ are both common English words and sound identical when spoken. Nevertheless, these...

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Word Choice: Dependant vs. Dependent

The words ‘dependant’ and ‘dependent’ cause a lot of confusion. This is due to being...

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5 Top Tips for Writing a Letter of Complaint

In a perfect world, everything would work all the time and we’d never have to...

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Independence Day (The Language of the Declaration of Independence)

Happy Fourth of July! 240 years ago today, America’s founding fathers agreed to adopt the...

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Word Choice: Disinterested vs. Uninterested

In academic settings, being ‘disinterested’ is usually good; being ‘uninterested’, on the other hand, is...

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What Is Etymology? And Where Does ‘Proofreading’ Come From?

Etymology is something proofreaders get quite excited about. Mostly this is just because we find...

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The Great ‘Data’ Debate: Singular or Plural?

While there can only ever be one Brent Spiner, there are two ways we use...

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British and American Grammar (Two Ways of Speaking)

We’ve previously looked at some of the spelling differences between British and American English. But...

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