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- 75 Contronyms (Words with Contradictory Meanings) - Daily Writing Tips
The English language includes an interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms (also spelled contranyms, or referred to as autoantonyms) --
- Cannot or Can Not? - DAILY WRITING TIPS
These two spellings [cannot can not] are largely interchangeable, but by far the most common is “cannot” and you should probably use it except when you want to be emphatic: “No, you can not wash the dog in the Maytag ” Bottom line There’s no difference in meaning between cannot and can not
- 30 Archaic Adjectives and Adverbs - Daily Writing Tips
The words below are either obsolete, archaic, or old-fashioned, and though those in the latter category can still be found in modern writing, use all with
- 20 Pairs of One-Word and Two-Word Forms - Daily Writing Tips
8 Anyone any one: The one-word form is a pronoun, synonymous with anybody, used as in “Anyone can make that claim ” “Any one” consists of the adjective any and the noun one, as in “Any one of you might be next ” 9 Anyplace any place: The adverb anyplace is a synonym for anywhere: “She won’t let me go anyplace without her ” The latter usage is an adjective-and-noun phrase
- Email Etiquette - Daily Writing Tips
If you work in an office, you probably write emails every day – to colleagues, to your boss, to clients Even if you’re still at college, you’ll need to email
- How to Format Block Quotations - Daily Writing Tips
When the first line of each paragraph in the running text is indented, block quotations of a single paragraph, and the first of multiple paragraphs, are not indented, but subsequent ones should be When paragraphs in running text are distinguished not by indentation but by line spaces, follow the same format in block quotations If the block quotation is inserted in a framing paragraph that
- Math or Maths? - Daily Writing Tips
Is “math” or “maths” the correct word to use as the shortened or colloquial form of the word mathematics? The answer is that it depends on where you are
- Between vs. In Between - Daily Writing Tips
A reader wants to know how between and in between differ in usage: Please explain the usage of the term “in between ” It’s been many years since I heard anyone say this I always thought it was unnecessary to combine the words “in” and “between” What’s the difference if you say that one thing is between another thing as opposed to saying that it’s “in between”? When
- 10 Words Often Misspelled in Business Correspondence
Most word processing programs have a built-in spell checker, but business correspondence still goes out with misspelled words that a checker would have caught
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