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How to spell words-alike correctly
English is a fantastic language that many of us have a great desire to learn and to speak in English. But many of us find it hard to speak English correctly because of pronunciation of the words. Many words in English are pronounced alike with different spelling. This mispronunciation of ... Continue reading
How to Write Correctly – Sound-alike Words
Practice/practise These two are constantly muddled up. That might seem an exaggerated claim, but even as we revised this book we came across this in The Times Higher Education Supplement: The institute has got to justify itself and we are now agreed we are not looking to issue a license to ... Continue reading
What are auxiliary verbs?
Auxiliary verbs exist to give additional syntactic information about the main verb by giving the sentence tense and / or mood. These auxiliary verbs are also more commonly known as helping verbs or linking verbs. In a clause that contains a finite verb you will find at least one auxiliary ... Continue reading