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Place the word "only" next to the word or phrase it modifies. For example: Original: In the longer run, this election can only be counted as a success if it...
If you received an e-mail today with the subject line: "You've Received a Hallmark E-Mail Card," please note that it was NOT sent by us. It was SPAM. Delete...
Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or...
The ability to make and understand puns is the highest level of language development. (Taken from a web site my husband sent to me. It was fun to read so I am...
This is how language grows: Someone complained that "mad at" sounded wrong. He said you need to say "mad with you," not "mad at you." For several hundred...
Try to eliminate the word "meaningful." Instead of saying a "meaningful" meeting or "meaningful" discussion, substitute words such as : fruitful, profitable,...
This is a hint for conducting a readability check on your writing: have a 12-year-old read what you have written. If the words are too difficult, the young...
Do not mistake a descriptive form ending in "s" for a possessive form. For example, in the term "sales effort," sales describes the effort; therefore, no...
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New Feature--Word of the Week. A word will be selected that may not be well-known by many people. We suggest you use the word often during the week, so it will...
Tip #493: If two people own the same thing, use apostrophe and 's' for the second person only. Example: Jim and Sandy's boss makes their accounting work...
Often, words are spelled differently than they sound. A common example is "would have." Its contraction form "would've" is often misspelled "would of." ...
If an entire sentence is an exclamation and the ending words are exact words in quotation, place the exclamation mark after the quotation. Example: I was...
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