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Most style guides have a simple yes or no rule on using the Oxford comma....
Do you know what it means to “beg the question”? While you’ve probably heard this...
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Have you ever heard the phrase to that effect or to the effect of? These...
Does a comma go before though? The answer is… sometimes. Hey, if the matter were...
APA 7 is one of the most straightforward referencing systems out there. However, citing certain...
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The abbreviations ‘e.g.’ and ‘i.e.’ have a couple of things in common: both are short...
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In the grammar world, positioning is everything. The wrong word in the wrong place can change the...
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Every English student has issues with English grammar tenses. If you’d like to know when...
Even if you don’t know what possessive pronouns are, you use them every day. They...
Personification is when you assign human traits to something nonhuman. In writing, it’s a literary...
The definition of a pronoun seems straightforward: a word used as a substitute for a...
An analogy is a rhetorical device we use to compare two things based on a...