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Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses

Clauses simplified

What exactly is a phrase?

loggerhead vs loggerheads

everyday vs every day: how not to be confused

What to know about ellipsis (punctuation)

Judgement or judgment

Oxford comma: why comma before ‘and’, ‘or’ is necessary

Envelope vs envelop: know the difference

Bouncy or bouncing baby: what you should know

Long time no see: not a Nigerian Pidgin phrase

May and might: uses in today’s English

Why English is compulsory in aviation

Stan: an English word credited to Eminem

… someone’s appetite: wet or whet

Is ‘upliftment’ a word?

Unaware vs unawares

What does ‘I stand corrected’ mean?

What’s so special about ‘OK’?

Difference between ‘snob’ and ‘snub’

How to use do/does/did in question

What about ‘whereabouts’?

English has one alphabet? Yes

Why letters ‘A’ and ‘I’ are different

Is ‘trickish’ a word? Yes

Why ‘I’ is a unique letter and word

Why ‘am’ is always used with ‘I’

Do you pronounce ‘Tuesday’ correctly?

Interjections: why they are different

Conjunctions: how to identify and understand them

Will and shall: has the rule changed?

Hyphen: did you know these uses?

En dash: the tricky dash

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Em dash: the regular dash

Ellipsis: using the omission style without blunder

Severally vs several times: connected but different

Altogether vs all together: now the confusion ends

Exclamation mark: what you should know about it

Difference between ‘in the night’ and ‘at night’

How to describe body shapes

Simplified difference between stepbrother/stepsister and half-brother/half-sister

Family vocabulary: simple to complex names to call your relatives

Common words often misspelt/misspelled

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas to our amiable readers

‘Such as’ and ‘like’: which is appropriate?

All meats not beef: see their names

Difference between ‘at the back of’ and ‘behind’

Difference between ‘in the front of’ and ‘at the front of’

What exactly is a phrase?

A phrase is a group of word (usually small) that forms part of a clause and is in itself meaningful. However, it cannot form a complete independent entity on its […]

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loggerhead vs loggerheads

The words ‘loggerhead’ and ‘loggerheads’ belong to the same part of speech (nouns) but have different meanings. loggerhead A type of turtle with a large head. A shrike (a type […]

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