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When spoken, ‘idle’ and ‘idol’ sound very similar. But these words differ in spelling and...
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When someone writes about people who live near to one another, you may have seen...
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If you’re an English speaker, you almost certainly use the progressive (or continuous) tenses every...
Burns Night is celebrated every year on 25 January to celebrate the life of the...
Now and then, you may need to cite a patent in your academic writing (e.g....
The words ‘key’ and ‘quay’ sound the same. But while ‘key’ has many meanings in...
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‘Ex’ is a common prefix in English. But how you punctuate this prefix may depend...
If you cite an online source in your academic writing, you will usually need to...
MLA referencing is an academic citation style used around the world. But what should you...
A good thesaurus – i.e. a book that lists synonyms and antonyms for other words...
‘Or’, ‘oar’, and ‘ore’ sound identical, but these words have very different meanings. Make sure...