Grammar & Punctuation – Diminutive – English editing.
 A version of a noun that refers to a small version of something. Such diminutives are formed by adding…
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Grammar & Punctuation – Dialect – English editing.
A version of a language spoken in a particular geographical area or by a particular group of people. The English…
Grammar & Punctuation – Determiner – English editing.
A class of words that forms an important part of many Noun phrases. The determiner comes before the noun and…
Grammar & Punctuation – Dash – English editing.
A punctuation mark that looks like an extended hyphen. It comes in two sizes, an em dash (-) and an…
Grammar & Punctuation – Dare – English editing.
A verb that can be used as a normal verb and also as a modal auxiliary verb. For this reason…
Grammar & Punctuation – Countable noun – English editing.
A noun that has both a singular and a plural form. Most nouns are countable, because they refer to things…
Grammar & Punctuation – Could – English editing.
A modal auxiliary verb, the past form of can. It can refer to ability in sentences that are about the…
Grammar & Punctuation – Coordinating conjunction – English editing.
A Conjunction that joins two items of the same grammatical status. The commonest coordinating conjunctions are: And But Or They…