Grammar & Punctuation – active or passive?
Using the passive voice has a number of disadvantages. It tends to sound rather formal and remote: Volunteers were sought…
Using the passive voice has a number of disadvantages. It tends to sound rather formal and remote: Volunteers were sought…
TRANSITIVE VERBS (verbs that take an object) can be used in two ways, or ‘voices’: active and passive: ACTIVE: The…
An ABBREVIATION composed of the first letters of other words so that the abbreviation itself forms a word. For example:…
Noun can be divided into two groups: concrete and abstract. Concrete nouns refer to people, places, and things that can…
The presentation of abbreviations in writing raises two questions: ï‚§ Should I use full stops? ï‚§ Do I use capital…
There is a limit to the meaning you can express with the conjunction and. If someone says She has not…
Multiple sentences are made by combining clauses. The simplest way of doing this is to use the grammatical equivalent of…
If a sentence consists of one clause it is described as a simple sentence. Each of the following is a…