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Grammar Tips: Restrictive Clauses

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Grammar Tips: Restrictive Clauses

Restrictive clauses are a common proofreading pitfall. Understanding how to use them correctly can significantly...

Adjectives | Grammar Tips

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Adjectives | Grammar Tips

Adjectives are a fundamental part of speech that can make your writing more vivid and...

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Grammar Tips: Possessive Plural Nouns

This post looks at possessive plural nouns. Let’s do a quick recap on nouns and...

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Grammar Tips: Participles

In English grammar, participles are essential elements of writing. Understanding how participles work and how...

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Grammar Tips: Participles

In English grammar, participles are essential elements of writing. Understanding how participles work and how...

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Grammar Tips: Predicate Nouns

A predicate noun (also known as a predicate nominative) follows a linking verb and gives...

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Grammar Tips: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers

In the grammar world, positioning is everything. The wrong word in the wrong place can change the...

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Grammar Tips: Possessive Pronouns (With Examples)

Even if you don’t know what possessive pronouns are, you use them every day. They...

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Grammar Tips: A Guide to Relative Pronouns

The definition of a pronoun seems straightforward: a word used as a substitute for a...

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Grammar Tips: What Are Conjunctive Adverbs?

A conjunctive adverb, otherwise known as a subordinating adverb, is an adverb that connects two...

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Grammar Tips: Relative Clauses

Relative clauses, also sometimes called adjective clauses, are phrases that add more information to the...

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Grammar Tips: Superlative Adjectives

Superlative adjectives (not to be confused with comparative adjectives) are the best adjectives in English!...

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5 Grammar Rules That Can be Broken in English

If you’re learning English, you’ve probably noticed that it comes with quite a few rules...

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Grammar Tips: That-Clauses

English is full of terminology that makes it seem more complicated than it really is....

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The Full List of Alternatives to Grammarly for Google Docs

In the world of text-editing apps, Grammarly is arguably the most popular and well known....

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Grammar Tips: The Prepositional Passive

In this article, we’ll take a close look at the prepositional passive in English. What...

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A Simple Grammar Guide to Subordinating Conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions can seem intimidating, but they are super important for building complex sentences in...

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