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In today’s article we’re going to look at participles. Now this is a little bit more advanced grammar, but it’s very useful and it’s using everyday speaking, but especially for writing and reading, because you’re going to see participles everywhere. What does participle do? What participles do is they help you get sentence variety, to …
In today’s article I am going to teach you about power verbs and why you should be using them on your resume. So this article is very, very good if you are looking for a job or even just looking to become a better Communicator. So, first of all what is a power verb? What …
We are looking at the skill of showing, not telling, and it’s going to transform your writing as long as you put it into practice afterwards. “Show, not tell. what’s he talking about?” When we’re writing we want to avoid simple statements that don’t really add any description or flavor. for example: The man was …
Today’s lesson is a writing one that is going to really show that you are a sophisticated write. That means that you are intelligent and that you’ve got a good understanding of English grammar, because you can use these two key punctuation marks. Semicolon what’s it used for? *A semicolon is used to replace a …
In today’s article we’re going to look at transitions. Now you may have seen some other articles on Internet about transitions, especially for writing. what we’re going to look at today are a few more specific transitions, but this time we’re not looking at transitions between paragraphs or even transition between sentences. We’re looking at …
In this article, I am going to teach you some great English writing tips. These tips are for both academic writing and non-academic writing. Okay, So it’s for writing in general.This article is going to be in two parts, because I have so many English Writing Tips, so I’m going to give five tips in …
Subject and Course Let’s get started. So the first one is in the area of a subject or a course. For example, if we’re talking about a subject that you study, for example algebra, then you do not capitalize it, for example, if you say “I’m studying algebra this year.” Okay? So you’re just talking …
We always have to make sure that our subject and our verb agree, they must agree especially in terms of number, if you have a singular subject you must have a singular verb. So, let’s look at this example: The doctor is off this week. when we talked about the doctor, there’s one doctor, his …
This article is something called: “parallelism” or “parallel structure”. Now, in case you’ve never heard of it, or if you’ve heard of it but you’re not sure what it is, I just want to tell you that it’s something really important especially in academic circles or in the business world. All right and also socially, …
Prepositions in general are pretty easy to confuse. For some of you, part of the problem is that with these propositions, you’re thinking about the way that you use them in your own language. English prepositions must be learned and practised in context with other words. So we won’t focus too much on each individual …