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Grammar tips: calvary versus cavalry
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Common misunderstandings every writer should know
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Don’t let your dangling modifier leave you exposed
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Direct and indirect questions: when to use a question mark
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Little green men and the royal order of adjectives
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When to use an apostrophe in ‘lets’ and when not to bother
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Whose who’s is whose?
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Going, going, gone: irregular verbs
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The value of reading something closely
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Hunger pangs versus hunger pains
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Champing at the bit versus chomping it at the bit
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More on compound subjects: either/or and neither/nor
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Don’t let compound subjects throw a spanner in the works
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Do you let sleeping dogs lay or lie?
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However, I will indeed, therefore, use conjunctive adverbs
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Strange words: Ballyhooly about falderal — but not complete balderdash
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Such as versus like
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& when is it OK to use an ampersand?
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Nominally interesting nouns
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How verbing weirds language
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Expletives must match your subjects and verbs
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Expletives: they aren’t what you ****** think they are
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Degrees of separation: Notes on the grammar of measurements
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Diacritic marks: When and how to use accents in grammar
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A handy trick to pick between me and I
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5 tips to improve the readability of your writing
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Impress your friends with correctly constructed correlative conjunctions
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Addressing greetings and direct addressing
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Shortlist versus short-list: when to hyphenate
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When to use its versus when to use it’s
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Precedent versus precedence
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Are your bullet points parallel?
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There are 183 ways you can use run in a sentence
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Compound nouns and plurals
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Did I infer or imply?
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Comprise versus compose
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Past versus passed
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Should I use “me” or should I use “I”?
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Degrees of adjectives
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Site versus sight
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Hanger versus hangar
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Do I need an editor or a proofreader?
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Median versus mean
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Why every writer should use a manuscript proofreader
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Should I use one space or two at the end of a sentence?
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Nouns, verbs and hyphenation
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Stationary versus stationery
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7 ways hiring a proofreader can save your business
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Pain versus pane
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Who knows when to use who versus whom?
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Less is not more; it’s fewer
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A versus An
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Stop the quotation mark abuse!
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The dos and don’ts of dos and don’ts
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Affect versus effect
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How to tell your hordes from your hoards
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To hyphenate or not to hyphenate
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Coulda, shoulda, woulda!
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A simple rule for apostrophes
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5 simple proofreading tips to save your business embarrassment
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