Category: English Editing

A version of a language spoken in a particular geographical area or by a particular group of people. The English…

A class of words that forms an important part of many Noun phrases. The determiner comes before the noun and…

A punctuation mark that looks like an extended hyphen. It comes in two sizes, an em dash (-) and an…

A verb that can be used as a normal verb and also as a modal auxiliary verb. For this reason…

A noun that has both a singular and a plural form. Most nouns are countable, because they refer to things…

A modal auxiliary verb, the past form of can. It can refer to ability in sentences that are about the…

A Conjunction that joins two items of the same grammatical status. The commonest coordinating conjunctions are: And But Or They…

The process by which a word from one word class is used as if it belonged to another class. For…