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The Modern Greek language has some aspects that would totally baffle a native English speaker for various reasons.
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Playing boldly with sentences
One of the most lucid and delightful books I've read about writing is Lucille Vaughan Payne's "The Lively Art of Writing." ...
AUXILIARY VERBS - They are known as helping verbs, and they are used together with a main verb. Here's how to correctly use ...
The sentence left Santos, who pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges, in tears.
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The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic ...
The iconic Jedi Master Yoda has captivated Star Wars fans for decades with his wisdom and, most notably, his unique speech pattern. For years, fans have wondered why Yoda speaks the way he does, and ...
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Bare Infinitive, Fortnight
He told the gathering of prominent journalists, top government functionaries and politicians that the occasion made him returned to the seat of power after about 16 years he left government.” (Daniel, ...
Premier Susan Holt’s bold talk about “eliminating” and “tearing down” interprovincial trade barriers still has a long way to ...
In an ad for Endurance, the auto repair protection provider, a customer testimonial notes that after she became a client “I never seen a repair bill.” I wonder if other customers ever saw bills.
Beastly’ and ‘ghastly’ were still going strong in the mid-20th century novels of Enid Blyton, but ‘awfully’ and ‘frightfully’ ...