Are you having trouble understanding what modifiers are? This blog post will help clear up some of that confusion. Modifiers are words that add more meaning to a sentence. They usually modify people, places, or things or actions stated in the sentence. Example: The big football player charged aggressively at the quarterback. In the sentence above, […]
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Are confused about how to use direct and indirect quotes? This article will clear things up for you. In writing, there are two types of quotations. The first, probably the one that you know of, is the direct quote. How To Use Direct Quotes The direct quote is the exact words/sentence that someone says. It
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Are you confused with how to use who and whom? What about lay and lie? How about raise and rise? If you are this article is for you. Using incorrect words can be embarrassing. You use one word, but what you were supposed to use was another word that sounds very similar to the one
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In this article, I am going to break down the newspaper article and share tips on how to write each part. Have you ever had dreams of being a journalist? Or, here’s the more likely scenario, do you have to know how to write a newspaper article for school? If so, you are at the
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Ever wonder if you’re writing paragraphs correctly? If so, this article is for you as I am going to go over the components of a paragraph. I’ve been tutoring English for a while now and a lot of my students don’t know how to write paragraphs properly. They know what a paragraph is and can
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