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Word Choice: Idle vs. Idol

When spoken, ‘idle’ and ‘idol’ sound very similar. But these words differ in spelling and...

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Spelling Tips: Neighbour or Neighbor?

When someone writes about people who live near to one another, you may have seen...

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Grammar Tips: A Quick Guide to the Progressive Tenses

If you’re an English speaker, you almost certainly use the progressive (or continuous) tenses every...

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Word Choice: Key vs. Quay

The words ‘key’ and ‘quay’ sound the same. But while ‘key’ has many meanings in...

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Writing Tips: When to Use a Hyphen with the Prefix ‘Ex’

‘Ex’ is a common prefix in English. But how you punctuate this prefix may depend...

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Thesaurus Day: Peter Roget and How to Use a Thesaurus

A good thesaurus – i.e. a book that lists synonyms and antonyms for other words...

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Word Choice: Or, Oar or Ore?

‘Or’, ‘oar’, and ‘ore’ sound identical, but these words have very different meanings. Make sure...

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Spelling Tips: Receive or Recieve?

To draw on the old phrase, is giving better than ‘receiving’ or ‘recieving’? This word...

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Word Choice: Not vs. Knot

Although ‘not’ and ‘knot’ sound the same, they have very different meanings. As a result,...

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What Is the Difference Between a Preface, a Foreword and a Prologue?

There are many ways to introduce a book, including with a preface, a foreword, or a...

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Writing Tips: Latino, Latina or Latinx?

‘Latino’, ‘Latina’, and ‘Latinx’ are all terms used to refer to people of Latin American...

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An Introduction to Assonance and Consonance

Assonance and consonance are important parts of creative writing, especially poetry. Both involve repeating certain...

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