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Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Countries, Nationalities, and Languages
This page explains the rule requiring the capitalization of the names of countries, nationalities, and languages with examples of each.
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Grammarly Blog: Prepositions of Direction
An explanation with examples of prepositions that describe direction.
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Take Lessons: How to Read Body Language: Examples From Around the World
This resource provides several examples of different meanings of various types of body language.
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Grammarly Blog: Pronouns
This page focuses on pronouns including definitions, personal pronouns, antecedents, relative pronouns, who vs. whom, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive and intensive, possessive, and interrogative pronouns. Examples are provided for...
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Grammarly Blog: What Are Prepositions?
This page defines prepositions and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Colon Use
This page explains the rules for using a colon in a series and to separate one idea from another and offers examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Splice
This page focuses on the misuse of commas by using them to connect two independent clauses, resulting in a comma splice. It offers examples and suggestions for correcting them. It also provides exceptions to the rule with examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Uses of Verbs
This page focuses on verbs including definitions, action and non-action verbs, verb tenses, and verb moods with examples for all of the above.
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Grammarly Blog: Unnecessary Preposition
This page explains that changes in usage over time makes the use of prepostions in certain instances unnecessary. While they are not technically incorrect, they lead to wordiness and should not be used. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Colon Between Independent Clauses
This page explains the use of a colon between two closely related independent clauses in a sentence when the emphasis is on the second clause. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Use Around Interrupters
This page focuses on the need for commas around interrupters in sentences and provides examples. Common interrupters include in fact, to say the least, however, generally speaking, sadly, happily, and unfortunately. Nouns of address can...
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Grammarly Blog: Uses of Prepositions
This page explains the uses of prepositions including to show direction, time, location, and spatial relationships. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
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Oxo: Behind the Design of the New Oxo Pop Containers
This article describes the process by which an engineer at OXO looked at design, size, and variety when he redesigned OXO's line of POP containers.
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Grammarly Blog: Verb Tenses: Grammar Rules
This page explains the three major verb tenses: past, present, and future with examples. It also offers links to information about each of these as well as the perfect, continuous, and perfect continuous of each.
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Appalachian State Univ.: Journal Reprint: Internet and Blog Publishing [Pdf]
Information, ideas, and examples of how technology can be used in a Social Studies classroom. Although designed for a fourth-grade classroom, many ideas in this article are applicable and adaptable for various grade levels and other...
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Grammarly Blog: Consistent Point of View
This Grammarly Handbook resource reminds students how to write with a consistent point of view. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to fix a sentence that contains an inconsistent point of view.
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Elements of Cinema: Diegetic and Non Diegetic Sound
A blog entry that explains the difference between diegetic sound in film (sound with an obvious, often visible source) and non-diegetic sound (where the source is not present). Includes a quote from Herbert Zettl. There is also a short...
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The Igen Blog: Ultimate Excise Tax Guide Definition, Examples, State vs. Federal
This is a fairly detailed explanation of state and federal excise taxes designed for the layperson, not for tax experts.
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Loc: Making Connections Through Poetry
Why not assign a creative project through which students analyze historical documents and share their understanding through poetry and art? All of the resources for this project (documents, images, and examples of famous poems) are...
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Grammarly Blog: What Are Adjectives?
This blog article explains what adjectives are, what they can do in sentences, and provides examples of each.
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Grammarly Blog: Separable Phrasal Verbs
An explanation and examples of verb phrases that can be separated by a direct object.
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Grammarly Blog: Inseparable Phrasal Verbs
An explanation and examples of inseparable phrasal verbs and how they are used in sentences.