How to Avoid Overusing the Word ‘That’ in Your Writing For a few years during elementary school, virtually every sentence my friends and I uttered included the word “like.” This awful speech habit led to plenty of well-deserved ridicule, which made me...
Choosing Engaging Words To Start a Paragraph Starting a new paragraph isn’t my favorite thing. I mean, I literally just finished a paragraph, and now I have to start a new one? Aren’t there unions to protect against this kind of thing? Like it or not, writers have to...
What Is a Dependent Clause and How Is It Used? Without you, a dependent clause would be out there in the world, lost and alone. Sentences would lack much-needed descriptions, and writing, in general, would suffer. Fortunately, we have you, the writers of the world,...
Understanding the Subordinate Clause Understanding the Subordinate Clause When I was in school, I found a lot of the rules of grammar to be very abstract. I enjoyed writing and tended to excel at making a point in an essay. However, when it came time for a grammar...
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