Grammar Tips

Route Vs Root

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Root Or Route – Grammar Tip I was creating some prep work for one of my client’s private VIP days and needed to use the word root. I actually paused for a second, because I had to review in my “mental dictionary” whether or not I had used the word correctly. So anytime I second [...]

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In Or Into: Grammar Tip

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In Vs. Into: Lisa’s Grammar Tip Of The Week I’ve got a real thing for supernatural fiction and science fiction, so I read quite my share of books on my Kindle. Yet in many of these fun novels, I’ve seen a lot of writers use the prepositions In or Into interchangeably when writing. That’s actually [...]

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Top 70 Prepositions In English Language

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Lisa’s Latest Grammar Tip… List of Top 70 Prepositions In The English Language aboard about above across after against along amid among anti around as at before behind below beneath beside besides between beyond but by concerning considering despite down during except excepting excluding following for from in inside into like minus near of off [...]

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Bring Or Take: Grammar Tip

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Lisa’s Grammar Tip For The Day… Bring Vs. Take Which one is correct usage? I have to bring my music to the party. OR I have to  take my music to the party? Here’s a quick explanation so that you get it right every time you sit down to write all your fantastic articles. BRING [...]

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Comma Errors To Avoid: Grammar Tip

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Another Grammar Tip by Lisa… As I’m on the tail end of doing summer homework with my daughters, one of the writing assignments was a little work on comma usage. Okay, so this was my 3rd grader’s homework assignment yet I see writers, editors, teachers (and myself:) screwing up comma usage everyday. So here we [...]

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Then Vs. Than: Grammar Tip

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I think we’ve all been a little guilty of this one. You are writing a great article, a letter, or something and you misuse the words then or than. It’s pretty easy to do. So let me explain the difference, so you don’t flub again. THEN Then is an adverb. It is used for TIME. [...]

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Top Ten Most Misspelled Words

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Here’s a list of the top ten most often misspelled words. Pay attention though, because these are words that spellcheck can miss based on the context in which we use the word, or because a few of the words are homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings) and [...]

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Affect Vs. Effect: A Grammar Lesson

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This is not one of my bigger grammar blunders, BUT I just saw some recent online grammar statistics that suggest that this is one of the most common grammar errors that people make when writing. So the big grammar lesson for the day: Is it Affect or Effect? If you’ve been through the U.S. school [...]

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