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Grammar: What’s all the fuss about?

When I was at school we just weren’t taught English grammar. We certainly didn’t miss it! The Latin and French teachers gave us plenty of grammar in those languages and escaping learning about English...

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I’m having contractions…

Vivien Hammel, one of my Online English Grammar readers wrote asking: ‘What is the proper term for words which are joined by an apostrophe? This is something that bothers me. Yet one sees so much more...

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Earning your daily salami … a writer’s perspective

[display_podcast] I’m not a huge fan of the immensely successful Stephen King, all that blood and creepy creatures from beyond the grave give me too many sleepless nights, but I stumbled upon some...

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How to Write a Good News Story or Blog Posting

[display_podcast] We get a lot of requests from our students asking for tips about writing good, clear English. So from time to time we are going to post an article here about an aspect of writing that...

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Is the phonetic alphabet really that powerful?

[display_podcast] In an earlier post I talked a little about how an understanding of English grammar can take you a long way to being a better communicator and a better learner. In this post I want to...

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The Road : Rolling Your Own English

[display_podcast] In previous posts I’ve talked about how English is a living, changing and very flexible language. Contributing to this is the way that writers often change, stretch and bend the...

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Sentence Structure : Writing fuel-efficient sentences

[display_podcast] Question from Rima in the USA: This sentence is driving us crazy! I realize it could be called compound, complex, compound-complex, or just crazy, but I have to ask: Is this sentence...

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Bitter Sweet : Suite Française – A Writer’s Lesson

It’s not that unusual in fiction for dramatic events in an author’s life to enter into the work of fiction that they are creating. It’s perhaps a lot less common when that real life drama is happening...

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