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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Don’t overuse [sic] to indicate that a mistake in a quotation was the original writer’s, not yours.
Reading Time: < 1 minutes If you want to highlight the information, use dashes. If it’s information that is needed, but you don’t want to draw attention to it, use parenthesis.
Reading Time: < 1 minutes There is no rule that using and at the beginning of a sentence is wrong. It is a stylistic choice..
Conjunctive adverbs can be used to join two sentences together. Unlike a subordinating clause (words like since, because, although), a conjunctive adverb’s flexibility lets you move it around in a sentence. This allows a writer to change the rhythm of a sentence.
Want to learn more? See our post about conjunctive adverbs. Want to practice finding conjunctive adverbs. Take our Quiz. And What is Grammar discusses the differences between rules and grammar.
There is a name for nearly every speech pattern, including trailing off and upspeak.
If you like expanding your vocabulary, you might be a Lover of Words.
Use the following infographic as a guide to the steps to find a verb. Remember that showing action or a state of being is only one job verbs have in a sentence.
