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Posted on September 23, 2021 by Dana P Skopal

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By Dana P Skopal, PhD Depending on how you learnt English grammar, you may know that sentences have a general structure of subject + verb + object. The subject describes what the topic of the sentence is about and aligns … Continue reading →

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Nouns describing things

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Posted on September 18, 2018 by Dana P Skopal

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By Dana P Skopal, PhD When reading, our mind is looking to understand what is going on. This ‘what’ can be ‘who’ is doing what, or covers ‘what’ is happening, such as a ‘report states the findings’. In English, the … Continue reading →

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Paragraph structure

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Posted on April 18, 2017 by Dana P Skopal

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By Dana P Skopal, PhD Good paragraph structure is important when writing, be it in workplace documents or university assignments. However, it seems many writers struggle to get a coherent flow of information in a paragraph. The first sentence in … Continue reading →

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