grammar
grammar
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by Paul Docherty - 2007-03-10
A style guide is a means of documenting your approach, as a writer, to the main elements of writing style that you believe need to be consistent. Style guides are generally associated with specialist...
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by Helen Wilkie - 2007-03-31
Here is a series of sentences containing common grammatical errors. See if you can spot them.1. We started small, but as the company has grown over the past ten years.2. The reason we cancelled the pi...
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by - 2007-03-31
The following sentences contain common grammatical errors. How many can you spot --- and can you correct them?1. We started small, but as the company has grown over the past ten years.2. The reason we...
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by Helen Wilkie - 2007-03-31
The following sentences are grammatically incorrect in some way. Can you write them correctly?1. We started small, but as the company has grown over the past ten years.2. The reason we cancelled the p...
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by Phxazlaura - 2007-04-01
The following is the transcript of a recent voicemail I received from a client:"Hi, Laura. It's Elizabeth*. I really hope I caught you in time. You know that article I sent you to edit? Don't open ...
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by Laurie - 2007-04-04
I was watching Oprah the other day and all of the sudden there was Grammar Girl talking about sentence structure and using the right words in the right ways. I couldn't believe it. I'd read about p...
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by Helen Wilkie - 2007-04-05
We live in a communication age, yet a surprising number of people don't know how to effectively use the basic vehicle of communication, the written word. Too often we throw up barriers to communicatio...
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by Helen Wilkie - 2007-04-07
Before you fire off that e-mail, are you sure your message is clear? Workplace communication often fails because in our written messages we inadvertently put up barriers between the message and the...
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by Bill Moore - 2007-04-08
Everyone should be sure of the rules when they use an indefinite pronoun. Or, maybe, everyone should be sure of the rules when he uses an indefinite pronoun. Or else, when he or she uses. . . And that...
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by Laurie - 2007-04-15
To is a homophone. I know what you're thinking - a what? A homophone; if you watch Jeopardy you know homophones are words that sound alike but have different meanings and are spelled differently. H...