Grammar and Punctuation

How to Write a Quote in an Essay Quotations form a major part of academic writings. Adding direct quotes to any piece of writing is very important as it helps in expanding upon the idea you have in mind as also acts as the evidence for the same. Quotes are also important as they usually support the arguments in the...

While you are proofreading your assignment, you need to see things through the eyes of a professional proofreader. Editors, and those who regularly proofread essays and other written documents are more detail-oriented than others, they learn to dissect paragraphs upon paragraphs of text, dutifully looking for spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and other inaccuracies. It is the primary objective of a...

Nearly every sentence written in English will fall into ten similar patterns, each determine by the existence (or non existence) and functions (or non functions) or nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Sentence patterns can be most easily categorized based on the type of verb that was used. “Verb of being” sentence patterns will use the form of “to be” as the...

If you’ve ever had to memorize hard-to-spell words in English you’ve probably noticed that some words are spelled way different than how they are pronounced. To further complicate things, some words may even be spelled differently is they are written in American English versus say, British English. Back in the Shakespearean era, when spelling first started to become standardized, most...

What is the proper spelling: adviser or advisor?  In case both versions are correct, what is the difference between these English nouns? In fact, there is no crucial difference between the two words. You can use either of them and neither will be a mistake. “Adviser” is more common in Great Britain and is considered more conventional, while “advisor” is...