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The question of whether to use ‘who’ or ‘whom’ is a tricky one and can...
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As deadlines approach and you begin making the final adjustments to your essay, one crucial...
The colon is a useful punctuation mark, but it should only be used in certain...
‘Emigrate’ and ‘immigrate’ sound similar when spoken, so it’s no surprise they’re sometimes used interchangeably...
An ellipsis is punctuation that can be used to cut down lengthy quotations, making it...
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The question of when to capitalise a word can be tricky. As such, sometimes even...
Although ‘practise’ and ‘practice’ sound exactly the same and have very similar spellings, the one...
The Oxford comma can be a useful tool in writing, as it can help make...
Although they sound slightly different when spoken, it’s easy to mix up the words ‘illicit’...
Although they sound similar when spoken, ‘their’, ‘they’re’ and ‘there’ have very different meanings. And...
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