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Contraction
A contraction in English is the shortening of a word. In place of the missing letter or letters, an apostrophe (’ or') is placed. Contractions are very common but are considered informal. -
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Oxford comma
Oxford comma (also known as the "serial comma" or "Harvard comma") is the name given to the optional final comma in a series. In the phrase "ham, egg, and chips" it's the comma between -
What Should Grammar Do?
Intro forth coming. --daytrod 04:03, 2 Mar 2005 (GMT) This is a description of the difference between the descriptivist and prescriptivist approaches. It is quoted from an article called "Correct American: State of American -
Verb
Verbs are one of the most important components of speech (word classes). [English verbs, like other types of words in the language, are not significantly inflected. The majority of Tense, aspect, mood, and voice combinations -
Capitalization
In case-differentiated writing systems, Capitalization or just "capitalisation" is the practice of writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case. The term -
Noun
Nouns are frequently formed by combining verbs or adjectives, as in the words talk and reading (a boring talk, the assigned reading) Some nouns, such as "wine" can serve both countable and uncountable functions (This -
Ending a sentence with a preposition
Some people think that sentences should not end in a preposition. While it is true that many sentences can be improved by following this rule, there are other places where it does not work well -
Adverb
A verb, adjective, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence is modified by an Adverb. Adverbs are used to express things like manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, and so on. The term "adverb" has -
Hyphenation
Hyphens serve many purposes. Sometimes a phrase becomes so common that it eventually becomes a single, commonly accepted word. Usually it begins as two words used together frequently, for example, dish washer. Often the two -
Possessive
A possessive form of a word is one that shows ownership, origin or a relationship tie. There is some debate about whether to have the s at the end when the base word ends in -
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Links for Further Reading All of these links will be annotated soon. If you add a link here, please include a summary or annotation of the material that can be found on that site. --daytrod -
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Your
Your is a possessive pronoun. This version of your is often mixed up with its counterpart'you're'. Here's an example: Are you going to take your bag at some point? -
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You're
You're is an English contraction, which means "you are". Here's an example: you're a loser. -
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Comma
A comma is a punctuation mark that separates items in a list, indicate a natural pause and separates clauses. It looks like ",". You use a comma when continuing a sentence after the words (and, but -
Whatcha
Whatcha is a nonstandard contraction, replacing the following sets of words: "what are you", "what have you", and "what do you". -
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