Academic Writing, Writing How to Write a Strong Introduction You have been staring at a blank screen for half an hour. Your head is pounding and your eyes are…
Academic Writing, Writing Back to School: How to Ask for Help Haneen, an international student at a large American university, was struggling to complete one of her assignments for an English…
Academic Writing, Writing Back to School: 7 Tips to Help You Ace Your Writing Assignments In North America, the UK, and certain other parts of the world, it’s time to start a new school year….
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Grammar, Writing Pronouns and More A pronoun is a word we use in place of a noun or a noun phrase. Pronouns are easier and…
Grammar, Writing Possessives: Where to put the apostrophe and the S We use possessives when we want to show that something belongs to a person, or when people are somehow connected…
Grammar, Writing Plurals: When a Noun Ends in S Sometimes the rules of English seem simple, but then things get a little bit complicated. Let’s look at plural nouns….
Grammar, Writing All About Them, They, and Their Most of the time, we use the words “them”, “they”, and “their” when we are referring to two or more…
Grammar, Writing How to Use There, Their, and They’re There, their, and they’re… These three words are homophones, which means that they sound the same, even though they have…
Grammar, Writing Ask an Editor: A New TextRanch Feature! At TextRanch, we understand that sometimes you have questions about words, phrases, and the principles of English grammar. Maybe you…
