Start your sentences with strong words and they will sound more authoritative. Avoid using the and there at the start of paragraphs and sentences when you can. Those words reduce reader comprehension and make someone have to scan more of… Read More ›
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Grammar tips: semicolons
One of my observances of human behaviour is the tendency for people to throw semicolons in sentences wherever they seem to look pretty. The semicolon is the most misused punctuation mark in English history. Only “comprised of” rivals its propensity… Read More ›
Grammar tips: ‘which’ and ‘that’
In Canada, we use a grammar style that takes from both British and American English. We side with the Americans when it comes to ‘which’ and ‘that,’ two words that have similar but distinctly different functions. Far too often –… Read More ›