Grammar & Punctuation – Future events – English editing.
Very often conditional clauses speculate about events in the future. Such clauses can be open or closed. In an open…
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Grammar & Punctuation – Past events – English editing.
Conditional clauses can also be used to speculate about how things might have turned out in the past: If they…
Grammar & Punctuation – Common events – English editing.
They can state general truths, such as: If water penetrates window sills, doors,or their frames, the result is wet rot.…
Grammar & Punctuation – condition – English editing.
When writing or speaking we often wish to show that one event depends on another in some way: If the…
Grammar & Punctuation – concrete noun – English editing.
A noun which refers to something which can be seen, touched, heard, tasted, and/or smelled. Concrete nouns are contrasted with…
Grammar & Punctuation – Adverbials of concession – English editing.
Sentences may also contain phrases which express similar ideas to clauses of concession. It had been a happy marriage, in…
Grammar & Punctuation – concession – English editing.
To concede something is to admit its truth, usually after you have originally denied it or refused to admit that…
Grammar & Punctuation – Compound word – English editing.
A word composed of two other words. Examples include: Crime reporter fortune-teller scarecrow. As the example show, the two words…