If an action is completed, “began” and “started” are obvious, adding no meaning, and should be avoided. He began to mumble the words with a mixture of sadness and stoic…
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Behind the façade of looking well, people are struggling, wondering what will happen next. This video was created to help Chick-fil-A employees be understanding, to treat their customers with kindness.…
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Using the word there is the weakest of all sentence starts because readers must wait until at least the third word to find any meaning. Find the noun that follows…
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English is one of the easiest languages to learn to speak, because it’s so broad and flexible, a mix of words derived from many languages. But learning to write it?…
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Which sounds better: “Do not do that” or “Don’t do that”? Contractions make your writing less formal and more pleasing to the readers’ ears because that’s what what we hear…
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A GPS gives people directions, but how would they react if a machine recognized them and gave them something they would really appreciate? Instead of an Automated Teller Machine, TC…
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Which sounds better: “Do not do that” or “Don’t do that”? Contractions make your writing less formal and more pleasing to the readers’ ears because that’s what what we hear…
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The apostle Paul wrote Timothy, asking him to bring the books and parchments when he came. Back then, all books were handwritten. About four hundred years later, Gutenberg invented the…
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A compound noun may be one word, two words, or a hyphenated word. They may be formed by joining a noun with a noun, adjective, verb, preposition, prepositional phrase, or…
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