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Editing Redundancy

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This poster does a clever job of showing (rather than telling) how easily redundancy can slip into our writing.

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Parallel Comparisons: When You Need “Other” or “Else”

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Expressing comparisons can be tricky. You must be sure that you are always comparing like things. In other words, be sure that your comparisons are parallel:

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Subject-Verb Agreement, Part 1

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One of the most common usage errors is subject-verb disagreement. This lesson will give some guidelines for avoiding this problem. Includes printable PDF practice exercise!

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Hanged or Hung?

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Here’s a grammar issue that people get hung up on. When using the verb hang in the past tense, is it correct to say hung or hanged?

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