How to Find the Verb Using the Tense Trick
Reading Time: 3 minutes To find a verb in a sentence, the trick is to change the time (tense) of the sentence.
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What Is a Semicolon Tattoo?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A person wearing a semicolon tattoo wants to show solidarity with someone who has attempted suicide or suffers from a mental illness.
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What is a Predicate?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A predicate is not a part of speech but a group of words that can have verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. These words work together to form what some call the verb phrase.
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What is Grammar?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although grammar does have rules, these rules help us communicate effectively. Grammar is the structure of a language, and the rules are the visible and obvious elements of that structure.
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Why Writers Should Avoid Comma Splices
Reading Time: 3 minutes Should you avoid comma splices? Fiction writers often think that comma splices aren’t a big deal. I recently ran across an excellent post by Yasmin Yarwood on LinkedIn where she …
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Can I Put a Comma Where I Pause?
Reading Time: 3 minutes When students ask too many questions about commas, teachers often revert to a classic piece of advice during comma instruction: put a comma where you pause. This advice leads to …
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