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Category Archives: dependent clauses

Is it important to be able to identify nouns, verbs and adjectives?

It is if you want to write properly. Which of the following is incorrect? I need to practise my spellings. I need to practice my spellings. Spell check won’t help you as it recognises both words: one as a noun and the other as a verb. If you don’t know the difference between a noun [...]

Commas are the splice of life.

I talked about commas in my first post ‘Let’s eat Grandma’ way back in April. Despite being one of the most-used punctuation marks, commas are among the least understood; comma splicing is a common phenomenon, even among talented writers. To understand how to avoid comma splicing, one needs to be aware of clauses. This is [...]