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6 Reasons You Should Check Your Grammar Before Publishing

It goes without saying that a good workman always doubles checks his work, and never was a double-checking process more necessary than when publishing written work. Every day, people all over the world miss out on golden opportunities through simple grammar errors. These errors cause unnecessary stress and get us into sticky situations because of [...]

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12 Nasty Punctuation & Grammar Errors That Make You Look Weak

English is difficult, there’s no doubt about it. Yet just as you think you’ve mastered the difficult concepts of English grammar and punctuation, nasty little errors trip you up and make you look weak on paper. These errors become blindly obvious when pointed out by a smug friend or tutor – leaving you to walk [...]

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20 Ridiculous Sounding English Words You’ve Never Heard Before

Many, many years ago, when computers were still the size of wardrobes and the world wide web was a really scary spider’s lair in a science fiction writer’s imagination, my Dad gave me a pair of huge dictionaries that he had picked up from a second hand bookshop. He was always keen on me bettering [...]

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10 Ways a Missing Hyphen Can Make You Look Like a Silly Sausage

The hyphen is certainly a contender for “least used punctuation mark”, and it hasn’t exactly attracted many fans over the years, either. Winston Churchill once said hyphens were “a blemish to be avoided wherever possible”, and Woodrow Wilson remarked that the hyphen was “the most un-American thing in the world”. Yes, there was indeed a [...]

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15 Punctuation Errors Your English Teacher Would Spank You For

Do you remember how hard your English teacher had to work in order to brush up your English skills? How you had to slave over sentence structure, objects and subjects and the correct use of grammar? However, then you left school and all of a sudden the rules were out of the window and text [...]

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6 Ways Writing Can Make You Obscenely Rich

Most people do it every day without a second thought, yet few people realize the moneymaking potential of the written word. Of course, there is a huge difference between writing and writing professionally, but when you think about how much money is generated in the world each day from simple words on a page, it [...]

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