Today I’d like to sum up our series on vocabulary learning, by providing you with some useful tips to learning vocabulary:
1. Come join the (word) family
Use your knowledge of word grammar to enlarge your working vocabulary.
Knowledge of the different parts of speech and the suffixes that are used to create them will have [...]
Category Archives: Writing Tips
Tips for Building Your English Vocabulary
February 24, 2010 – 9:35 am
Learning Vocabulary with Whitesmoke Writing Software
February 19, 2010 – 9:03 am
Today I want to relate to a topic many of you asked for…Learning Vocabulary!
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Back to our topic…
You all constantly encounter new [...]
Consistency is the key to good writing
February 16, 2010 – 7:33 pm
Today I’d like to present you with the key to good writing…tense consistency!
The tense of a sentence is the time at which the action occurred.
When writing, we must be aware of the tenses we use in our text.
There’s no need to feel tension with verb tense – Just stay consistent!
In order to be sure you [...]
Grammar Tips – the most common errors in english
February 11, 2010 – 8:20 am
Auxiliary-Verb-Agreement is one of the most common errors in English, so I decided to help you avoid making this mistake.
Let’s get started…
Auxiliary verbs are helper verbs – they are small action words that can help to express the mood or tense of regular verbs.
“Auxiliary” means “to help or support”, and that is exactly what [...]
Three Grammar Tips for English Writing
February 7, 2010 – 9:33 am
Here are some grammar tips to keep in mind while writing:
1. Be Mindful of Your Subject-Verb Agreement (The boys runs home?The boys run home)
2. Know the Proper Usage of Words that Sound the Same (meat/meat)
3. Distinguish between Adjectives, which describe nouns and Adverbs, which describe verbs (good-well)
With Whitesmoke English Writing Software, you can find your [...]
Tips for Effective E-mail Writing
February 4, 2010 – 2:31 am
Who doesn’t use e-mail these days?
Electronic mail is an integral part of the 21st century communication.
Believe it or not, the average office worker receives 60-200 e-mail messages per day, and it is estimated that over 7 trillion e-mails were sent last year!
Between this high volume of e-mail communication and the faster pace we work at [...]
Writing Resources – Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs
February 1, 2010 – 7:57 pm
From poetry to lengthy prose, creative writing can be a great way to express yourself. Of course, even the best students and writers can use a few tips, a little inspiration and a whole lot of help getting their work out there. These blogs offer all of that and more. From blogs that focus on [...]
English Grammar Insights – Plural Nouns!
January 26, 2010 – 11:11 am
Making plural nouns is simple: 1 computer – 2 computers. Pretty straight forward, right?
Wrong!
When it comes to making nouns plural, there are no clear-cut rules.
The exceptions to the rules exceed the rules themselves, for example:
If the plural of box is boxes, why is the plural of ox – oxen?
If the plural of safe is safes, [...]