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Grammar Tips: What Are Reflexive Pronouns?

Reflexive pronouns let us form sentences where the subject and object are the same thing....

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Grammar Tips: What Are Auxiliary Verbs?

Most English speakers use auxiliary verbs every day, even if they’ve never heard the term...

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Grammar Tips: Understanding Conditional Sentences

We use conditional sentences to talk about hypotheticals (i.e. things that might happen). These sentences...

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Grammar Tips: What Is a Past Participle?

You almost certainly use past participles on a daily basis if you speak English. But...

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Grammar Tips: Subjects and Predicates

When you write, it’s important to use correct grammar. This includes writing in complete sentences....

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Grammar Tips: Appositives and Appositive Phrases

Appositives and appositive phrases sound very technical, but people use them in writing and speech...

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Grammar Tips: Understanding the Zero Article

You might be familiar with the definite article (‘the’) and indefinite articles (‘a’ or ‘an’),...

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Grammar Tips: Action Verbs and Stative Verbs

Most people think of verbs as ‘action words’. But they actually come in two kinds:...

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Grammar Tips: Must Have or Must Of?

Mixing up ‘must have’ and ‘must of’ is one of the most common grammatical errors...

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Do Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Matter on Social Media?

The internet has not been kind to spelling, grammar and punctuation. On social media, for...

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Grammar Tips: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

A verb is a word that denotes an action (e.g. run, jump, kick) or state...

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Grammar Tips: Independent and Dependent Clauses

Independent and dependent clauses are fundamental parts of writing. But what are these clauses? How...

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