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Weird Words for Autumn Time. Settle in and get cozy with this collection. Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 2. They're wonderful. They're obscure. They're often quite pointless. 'Gaslighting,' 'Woke,' 'Democracy,' and Other Top Lookups. We know you're going to look these up.
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Using Bullet Points ( • ) - Merriam-Webster
If bullet points are in sentence form, they should begin with a capital and end with punctuation. If bullet points are in phrase form, they don’t need ending punctuation and can begin with a capital or lowercase letter. Bullet points should be about the same length; you don’t want one to be super short, while the others are all long.
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Which vs. That: Correct Usage | Merriam-Webster
Here is what our own usage guide, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage, has to say on the matter: We conclude that at the end of the 20th century, the usage of which and that —at least in prose—has pretty much settled down. You can use either which or that to introduce a restrictive clause—the grounds for your choice should be ...
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Sentence Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SENTENCE is a word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the performance of an action, that in writing usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress ...
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SENTENCE Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Synonyms for SENTENCE: ruling, verdict, judgment, judgement, decision, finding, holding, doom; Antonyms of SENTENCE: pardon, reprieve
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English Reading Comprehension Exercises - UsingEnglish.com
Reading comprehension exercises are activities designed to help students understand and interpret written text. These exercises typically involve reading passages and then answering questions about the content, themes, vocabulary, and structure of the text. The main goals are to improve the ability to grasp the meaning, analyse the text, and ...
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How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)
The Em Dash as Comma or Parenthesis. Em dashes are used in place of commas or parentheses to emphasize or draw attention to parenthetical or amplifying material. In this particular task, em dashes occupy a kind of middle ground among the three: when commas do the job, the material is most closely related to what’s around it, and when ...
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How to Use Who vs. Whom | Merriam-Webster
This means that our original sentence is indeed technically correct, despite the fact that who appears in what looks like an object position, after the verb know: I know that who is on the cat's good side always matters in such cases. After all that, surely no one can claim that keeping who and whom in their prescribed places is easy to do. In ...
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How to Use 'Although' in a Sentence - Merriam-Webster
Although we rarely see each other, we're still very good friends. Although I'd love to have dinner with you tonight, I already have plans. It feels as if I've known you forever although we've only known each other for a day. He's the basketball team's best player although he's the shortest one on the team.
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33 Transition Words for Essays | Merriam-Webster
33 Transition Words and Phrases. 'Besides,' 'furthermore,' 'although,' and other words to help you jump from one idea to the next. Transitional terms give writers the opportunity to prepare readers for a new idea, connecting the previous sentence to the next one. Many transitional words are nearly synonymous: words that broadly indicate that ...
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