Category: English Editing

The main use of the exclamation mark is to end sentences that express:  An exclamation: ‘With a fixed bayonet!…

A remark expressing surprise, delight, pain, anger, or other strong emotion, often spoken with extra force of emphasis: How wonderful!…

The study of the history of words, or the history of a particular word. Dictionaries often provide information about the…

When these two conjunctions are used as a pair, the two expressions that are linked should be of the same…

An Auxiliary verb. Like be and have, do can be used both as an auxiliary and as a main verb.…

A sentence adverbial that provides some comment by the speaker or writer on the content of the sentence in which…

A vowel sound that is composed of a sequence of two vowels. The vowel in the word ‘so’, for example…

 A version of a noun that refers to a small version of something. Such diminutives are formed by adding…