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• Grammar 101: Site, Sight and Cite

  
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  Words that sound the same when spoken, but are spelled differently and have different definitions, can present quite the challenge when it comes time to write them down. Homophones are particularly challenging if one or more of the variations is used more seldomly than its more common counterparts. We’ve seen this ...
  1 week ago

• The principal writing principle

  
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  The principal (or most important) principle (or basic rule) of writing is to know something about the language you’re writing in. The writer for Yahoo! Shine illustrates one possible outcome if you dare to violate that principle: Filed under: Confused Words , principal/principle Tagged: Commonly confused ...
  2 weeks ago

• Phonetics: /k/

  
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  In British English the Phonetic symbol  /k/  corresponds to the initial consonant sound in words like " kiss ", and " cold " and the final one in " book " and " black ". Just to keep students on their toes, there are also a few words where it corresponds to " ch ". It is a voiceless consonant.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Words and Such

  
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    Without your innate ability to urinate, you’re in urine trouble. Which leads us to this list of dreadfully important new words: Urinatability: Your innate ability to urinate. Rainish: Kind of, or almost, raining – maybe it rained last night, the air is still pregnant with humidity & the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Online English Tutor – What’s Happening Over There?

  
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  They’re over there, I think. Back with a quick edition of our online English tutor, and this time it’s a lesson in homophones, words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Today let’s look at: there their they’re These pesky words seem to give people a lot of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phonetics: /eə/

  
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  In British English the phonetic symbol  /eə/  corresponds to the vowel sound in words like "hair" and "wear". It is a long vowel sound, this is called a diphthong.  Some common words which practice the pronunciation of /eə/ include the following: with " ar ":  bare - care - dare - fare - hare ...
  3 weeks ago

• Aid vs. aide

  
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  An aide is someone who helps. An aid is something that helps.
  4 weeks ago

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