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Dangling participles

April 25, 2014 -

Adjectives and verbs ending in –ing are called present participles. They must be used carefully. Consider the following sentences: Standing at the gate, a scorpion… Continue reading

Building blocks of a sentence

March 25, 2014 -

If you are a beginner, you can use these simple sentence patterns to start writing in English Sentences in all languages follow certain patterns. There… Continue reading

Joining two sentences using a relative pronoun

March 24, 2014 -

Relative pronouns are words like who, which and that. A relative pronoun serves two purposes. It acts as the subject or the object of the… Continue reading

Using few

March 20, 2014 -

The word few can be used in several different ways. Few as a determiner When few is used as a determiner, it is followed by… Continue reading

Pronoun-antecedent agreement

March 11, 2014 -

A pronoun is a word used to refer to a noun mentioned earlier in the text. This noun is called the antecedent of the pronoun.… Continue reading