Using apostrophes can give writers and students problems. There are so many rules for using apostrophes. Even knowledgeable people who are familiar with linguistics and English grammar have a hard time with them. If you looked up “apostrophes definition” on
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The gurus of writing, as well as text-improving apps, with one voice advise to simplify sentences, get rid of complex ones, and break monolithic ideas into small, monotonous phrases of 5-7 words. Text simplifiers forget how beautiful a sentence may
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There are hundreds of people all around the world who keep asking one and the same question, “How to work from home?” Though, it seems unlikely that the answer will be just one sentence, yet we can say with full
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Slaving over your writing task for many, many hours, you finally get to the proofreading stage. “No big deal—I’m almost done!” you probably think. However, deciding to finish editing in one pass, you eventually find out it is quite an
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Getting distracted and can’t finish your work on time? “Stop it, or I’ll bury you alive in a box!” That was a good old classic way of motivation that explains why we will avoid giving evident pieces of advice, life
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Let’s start with the definition of a gerund. It is a verbal noun; its functions in a sentence are the same as that of a noun. Gerunds are formed by adding “ing” to a verb. Sometimes it can be problematic
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What’s pros and cons? Well, it is an abbreviation of the latin phrase pro et contra, which means to be for or against. In the case of spell checkers, there are quite a few. Though spell checkers are invaluable tools,
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Introductory Note Proofreading seems like a mundane task, but it deals with a lot of subtlety. Much like a keen detective, a proofreader has to know and pick up on details that most people don’t see. Can we learn how
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Mistakes are bound to happen. Native writers, and writers who are learning English, both commit errors, but in different ways. There are common mistakes in English that almost anybody makes, like writing “affect” instead of “effect,” or using a semicolon
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Daily, loads of information come our way. In fact, whatever we do consists of bumping into content. Funny or serious, involving or entertaining – the messages seem to be everywhere and we can’t escape them. With over 1,329,700,000 websites available
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