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Grammar

     
    Auxiliary Verbs
     
    5 Ways to Reduce Use of Prepositions
     
    A lack of an Oxford comma cost dairy $5 million
     
    Active/Passive Voice
     
    Clarity & Flow: Bringing Harmony to Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs
     
    Colon Basics
     
    Comma story - Terisa Folaron
     
    Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences
     
    Editing Poetry: Say It or Don’t Say It
     
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
     
    Ellipses
     
    En Dash vs. Em Dash
     
    How Many Syllables A resource for defining and understanding syllables.
     
    How to Avoid Split Infinitives
     
    How to Use Apostrophes Properly: The Definitive Guide
     
    How to Use Ellipsis Marks
     
    How to Use Hyphens
     
    How to Use Parentheses
     
    How to Use Quotation Marks
     
    Hyphen Use
     
    If-ing
     
    Improving Sentence Clarity
     
    Introduction to nouns
     
    Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here
     
    Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
     
    Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers (Part 1)
     
    Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers (Part 2)
     
    Nouns
     
    NOUNS: subject and object noun
     
    Parallel Structure
     
    Parallel Structure by Shmoop
     
    Parallel Structure or Parallelism
     
    Parentheses
     
    Prepositions
     
    Prepositions for Time, Place, and Introducing Objects
     
    Quotation Marks Part 1
     
    Quotation Marks Part 2
     
    Quotation Marks Part 3
     
    Recognizing fragments
     
    Relative Pronouns in English | WHO | WHOM | WHOSE | WHICH and THAT
     
    Revising to Eliminate Wordiness
     
    Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices
     
    Schoolhouse Rock - Grammar Rock (Pronouns)
     
    Schoolhouse Rock - Grammar Rock Nouns
     
    Schoolhouse rock, Busy Prepositions
     
    Semicolons
     
    Subject-Verb Agreement
     
    Sympathy for the Semicolon
     
    Synonym Resource for synonyms and antonyms.
     
    The Active and Passive Voice #1
     
    The Active and Passive Voice #2
     
    The Apostrophe
     
    The Case—Please Hear Me Out—Against the Em Dash
     
    Usage – Parallel Structure
     
    Usage – Pronoun Reference
     
    Using Colons
     
    Vague Pronoun Reference
     
    Verb Tense Consistency
     
    Verbs: Schoolhouse Rock
     
    What Is a Comma Splice? And Why Do Editors Hate Them?
     
    WordHippo An online website and application providing a range of tools related to the use of words for creative and recreational purposes such as writing, poetry, translations, word games, etc.
     
    Writing Tips #1: Weeding Out Prepositions
     
    Writing Tips: Abolish the Adverbs
 
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