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Do you know how to use semicolons, where to put apostrophes and when to use commas? Do you know the difference between affect and effect, if and whether, and who and whom? More importantly, do you know why this stuff matters?With a comprehensive grammar glossary, list of common errors and hundreds of interactive tests, Grammar Monster is perfect for anyone who wants to brush up on half-remembered rules and write with confidence.
Punctuation Lessons
- Using Apostrophes
- Using Colons
- Using Commas
- Using Dashes
- Using Hyphens
- Using Parentheses (Brackets)
- Using Semicolons
- Using Speech Marks
The Parts of Speech
Easily Confused Words
- advice and advise
- adverse and averse
- affect and effect
- appraise and apprise
- avenge and revenge
- bare and bear
- can and may
- coarse and course
- complement and compliment
- compose and comprise
- dependant and dependent
- discreet and discrete
- disinterested and uninterested
- e.g. and i.e.
- envy and jealousy
- explicit and implicit
- further and farther
- gray and grey
- immigrate and emigrate
- imply and infer
- its and it's
- loose and lose
- marinade and marinate
- material and materiel
- past and passed
- personal and personnel
- poisonous or venomous
- practice and practise
- principal and principle
- role and roll
- tenant and tenet
- their, there, and they're
- too or to
- weather, whether, and wether
- while or whilst
- who or whom
- who's and whose
- you're and your [more...]
Glossary of Terms
- abbreviation
- absolute possessive
- abstract noun
- accusative case
- acronym
- active sentence
- active voice
- adjective
- adjective clause
- adjective phrase
- adjunct
- adverb
- adverbial clause
- adverbial phrase
- affix
- analogy
- anastrophe
- antecedent
- antonym
- appositive
- archaism
- article
- aspect
- auxiliary verb [more...]
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