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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010First, let is be known that we are talking about punctuation and not our friend embedded into our digestive system!
Following the success of the article Guide to Comma Use the editor decided to put me back in the lions den and gave me the go ahead to write an article on the colon.
In [...]
Learn English Online: Exercises and Tests
Monday, February 8th, 2010Here’s a site with dozens of exercises and tests to help develop grammar, spelling, and vocabulary proficiency.
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Test Your Knowledge of the Most Commonly Confused Pairs
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Select the correct word or phrase for each of the following 50 questions to test your knowledge of the most commonly confused words.
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Test Your Knowledge of the 25 Most Misspelled Words
Thursday, January 21st, 2010The 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words is a list that has circulated among American businesses for decades. Two words have variant spellings for companies using British English spelling. Those two words are repeated at the end of the list of 25 words asking for the British spellings.
Business writers can avoid the problem of having supervisors, [...]
The Art of the Paragraph When Writing Blog Posts
Friday, January 15th, 2010Anyone can write a paragraph, but not everyone knows how to write one that other people want to read.
You’ve seen it:
You open a book, and the whole page is one long block of text.
Each sentence in the paragraph makes exactly the same point, said in a slightly different way, and you wonder why they didn’t [...]
Twitter Spelling Test
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Find out what common words people may be mistweeting.
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How to Use an Apostrophe
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009If you’ve ever paused mid-stroke and thought “Does this need an apostrophe?” you’ll want to take a peek at the apostrophe-use flowchart at Apostrophe.me for a cartoon-driven refresher.
The flowchart asks simple questions like “Is it plural?” and “Are you indicating possession?” to drive the flow through all the potential situations in which you would use [...]
Ten Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make People Look Stupid
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally . . . We try to invest a little care, avoiding mistakes so that there’s no confusion about what we’re saying and so that we look professional and reasonably bright. In general, we can slip up in a verbal conversation [...]
20 Places to Study Grammar Online
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009If you are looking for a fun and interactive way to study English grammar, you can find almost everything you need on the Internet. There are exercises, tests, study guides, quizzes, and many other materials that make studying English grammar both simple and entertaining. Here are 20 resources to try:
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Grammar Monster: Free English Lessons
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Grammar Monster is an interactive and user-friendly program designed to revise (or teach) the use of punctuation and English grammar. It is aimed at native English speakers who are required to produce high-quality official correspondence.
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