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English Grammar Basics

A Lot vs. Alot vs. Allot

The English language is teeming with idiosyncrasies that can cause confusion, including differentiating between a lot, alot, and allot. Though these words all sound the same, a lot and allot mean totally

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Facts About Adjectives!

1. Adjectives are words used to describe things. Adjectives are used to describe things. Here are some examples: It is very hot in June. The boy ran quickly.

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Mixed Constructions

A mixed construction is a sentence with incompatible elements that begins with one type of structure and shifts to another type of structure. In these

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Parallelism

Parallel sentence elements in grammar are just like parallel lines in geometry: they face the same direction and never meet. More precisely, in grammar, it’s

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Passive Voice

The passive voice is often maligned by teachers and professors as a bad writing habit. Or, to put it in the active voice, teachers and

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Metaphors

A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true but helps explain an idea

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Similes

Let’s use this example to understand what a simile is: A simile is a phrase that uses a comparison to describe. For example, “life” can be described as similar

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Idioms

What’s an Idiom? Broadly speaking, an idiom is a widely used phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a particular meaning that you would

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Onomatopoeia

Boom! Crunch! Pop! Onomato . . . what? Hard to spell but easy to use, an onomatopoeia (ahn-uh-mat-uh-PEE-uh) is a word that sounds like what it means.

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Hyperbole

Hyperbole (hi-PER-buh-lee) is a language that is obviously exaggerated and not meant to be taken literally. Writers often use hyperbole for emphasis or to be

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Compound Words

When two words are used together to yield a new meaning, a compound is formed. Compound words can be written in three ways: as open

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Capitalization

At first glance, the rules of English capitalization seem simple. You probably know you should capitalize proper nouns and the first word of every sentence.

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Spelling Rules

Anyone who has ever had to memorize a tough-to-spell English word (It’s fuchsia, right? Or is it fuschia? Fushia?) has noticed that the spelling of some words is

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Abbreviation

An abbreviation, simply put, is a shortened form of a word. In writing, abbreviations are useful when you need to squeeze a lot of writing

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Question Mark

Without question marks, we’d miss out on all kinds of things: invitations, jokes, the Riddler . . . No doubt, the question mark is a

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