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velvetpie
on Aug 31, 2017
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Errors occur every day in the manner in which words are used. Let's talk about some of the most common.
COUNCIL / COUNSEL
The word, COUNCIL, is a noun and means a group of people that pass laws, ordinances or other laws or standards. She had to go before the council for them to pass judgment on her or The council will take up the wetlands provisions next w...
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R. Richard
on Sep 1, 2017
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The words Lay and Lie are verbs that are often used incorrectly. One of the reasons is that there are two Lay verbs. One is the base form of the verb Lay, and the other is the past tense of the verb Lie.
Lay is a transitive verb meaning 'to put or place.' Someone lays something down.
(Note: Lay is also a widely recognized slang verb or noun involved wit...
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velvetpie
on Sep 15, 2017
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Errors occur every day in the manner in which words are used. Let's talk about some of the most common.
APPRAISE / APPRISE
APPRAISE is a verb that means to estimate the value of an item or a person. The value doesn't always have to be tangible. Some examples of this are: I need to have my grandmother's jewelry appraised or The appraised value of the land i...
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lindiana
on Sep 13, 2017
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US English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English.
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When putting a sentence together, words act not only individually but as a group. The grouped words can work together in a variety of ways but the way we will be concentrating on in this chapter is the phrase. We touched upon the verb ph...
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lindiana
on Sep 19, 2017
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English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English.
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In the English language, there are eight parts of speech:
The Noun
The noun is a word that is used to name a person, place, thing or idea. Nouns are classified as one of three types: proper/common, abstract/concrete or collective....
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velvetpie
on Sep 15, 2017
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Errors occur every day in the manner in which words are used. Let’s talk about some of the most common.
THEY’RE / THEIR / THEREB
THEY’RE is a contraction, a combination of two words. In this case, the two words are THEY and ARE, a pronoun and a verb. They’re going to the ball game tonight.
THEIR is a pronoun that shows possession. That woman is their moth...
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R. Richard
on Sep 1, 2017
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Buy may be used as a transitive verb. Bought, buying, buys
Buy may mean to acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent, to purchase. "They were able to Buy supplies at a good price."
Buy may mean to be capable of purchasing. "Money will not Buy some of the better things in life."
Buy may mean to acquire by exchange, trade or sacrifice. "The Israelis w...
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lindiana
on Sep 13, 2017
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English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English.
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You can use two terms, subject and predicate, to describe most sentences. However, there are other names and functions of important sentence elements at your disposal. We will review those elements.
Subject and Predicate
A sentence consis...
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velvetpie
on Sep 13, 2017
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Whenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don't know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of...
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velvetpie
on Sep 15, 2017
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Errors occur every day in the manner in which words are used. Let's talk about some of the most common.
GOOD / WELL
GOOD is an adjective and is used to provide description to a noun. Some examples are: The good boy always gets a reward or He settled into bed with a good book.
WELL is an adverb and is used to modify or lends description to adjectives, verb...
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