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01.12
11:38
Most people have good grammar. I mean, I talk to people all the time and their grammar sounds perfectly passable. Problems seem to happen, though, when some of those same people put down their thoughts on paper. Their grammar, for some reason, devolves into something less than acceptable. Why is that?
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06.10
8:57
Love adverbs? Many people don’t but it’s nice that you do. In case you’ve been wondering, there are five general types of this figure of speech, each of them modifying a verb, adjective, adverb or phrase in its own way.
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01.10
6:50
When a word is inflected, its form changes ever so slightly, depending on how it is used. Most of the time, the ending varies to reflect its function in the sentence. The grammar of many languages, such as Latin, German and Russian, are considered complex because of this requirement.
06
01.10
6:43
The advancement of grammar and spelling checkers have made worrying about spelling less of a problem now than ever. Couple that with texting and Twitter, and we’ve got an entire generation of people who probably couldn’t spell right if you put a gun to their heads. For those who’d like to be prepared to line up the letters correctly when they need to, here’s a guide to better English spelling.
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11.09
8:39
Do you encounter problems with the use of adjectives and adverbs? While they’re not the easiest to master (I’ve seen pros use them poorly), paying careful attention at how you use them can do wonders (especially during the editing stages).