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Avoid Unnecessary Shifts in Verb Tense
By LadyofHats, via Wikimedia Commons One crucial aspect of our language allows us to explain the timeline of evolution depicted above: verb tenses. Alright, I’ll allow that some knowledge of...
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Pronoun-Antecedent Reference and Agreement
By Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire (Flickr: Crab Traps 1) CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons Look at these crab traps, think about how each one...
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Staying Consistent, Or How to Identify Faulty Parallelism
Both images found on Wiki Commons Which train track would you like to see ahead of you as you coast through the countryside? Dumb question, right? I know. I know. But would you say the same thing if...
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Write in Active Voice—Avoid Passive Voice Answers
Which picture do you find more compelling? The player driving to the basket for a layup? Or a ball going through a basket? I assume that nearly everyone is more interested in the picture on the left...
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