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Grammarly Handbook: Evidence
This page focuses on the evidence to support points in an essay. Be sure you have enough support for each point and that the points are strong ones. It also suggests you double check both direct and indirect quotations in your paper to...
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Grammarly Handbook: Faulty Parallelism in Comparisons Using Than
This page focuses on correcting mistakes in parallel structure when using the word "than" in a comparison. It also covers how to correct the parallelism.
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Grammarly Handbook: Lexical Density
An explanation of lexical density and examples of sentences that are and are not lexically dense.
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Grammarly Handbook: Punctuation
An explanation of the importance of punctuation and links to specific information on several different types of punctuation marks.
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Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Style
A list of three techniques used to develop sentence style: Sentence Variety, Sentence Emphasis, and Wordiness. Each technique links to more information.
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Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures
This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.
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Grammarly Handbook: Global Revisions
This page focuses on how to do global revisions, reading and rereading drafts for content and quality, before editing for errors.
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Grammarly Handbook: Capitalization at the Beginning of a Sentence
This page explains the beginning letter of each sentence is always capitalized, even in direct quotes in the middle of sentences. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Handbook: Organizing and Developing Your Ideas
A list of four important parts of a writing project with links to additional information on each.
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Grammarly Handbook: Methods of Reasoning
A list (with examples) of common errors in logic including the following: non sequiturs, hasty generalization circular argument, ad hominem, ad populum, and red herring.
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Grammarly Blog: Everyday vs. Every Day
This page provides the rules for the proper use of the words "everyday" and "every day."
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Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Seasons When Used in a Title
This page provides rule and examples for the capitalization of the seasons. Seasons, although not generally capitalized, are capitalized in titles like all words are with the exception of articles and prepositions.
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Grammarly Blog: Interjections
An explanation of the use of interjections and links to specific interjection usage rules.
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Grammarly Blog: Phrasal Verb and Idioms
An explanation of phrasal verbs used in idioms. Links to additional information are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Separable Phrasal Verbs
An explanation and examples of verb phrases that can be separated by a direct object.
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Grammarly Blog: Inseparable Phrasal Verbs
An explanation and examples of inseparable phrasal verbs and how they are used in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
An explanation and examples of intransitive phrasal verbs and how they are used within a sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: Apostrophe Rules
This page focuses on the rules for the uses and misuses of the apostrophe including contractions and omissions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, how to write joint possession, plurals, apostrophes with surrounding punctuation, and...
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Grammarly Blog: Comma
This page focuses on comma use; it explains the importance of the comma and provides an example of how drastically a comma can change the meaning of a sentence. It also provides links to 38 different pages of comma rules and examples.
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Grammarly Blog: What Is a Comma?
This page explains that a comma is a "soft stop" in writing and provides examples of its use.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Usage
This page focuses on some of uses for commas and provides examples of each. These rules include separating items in a series, separating repeating words, to offset information, noun of address, and even change nouns to verbs.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Between Two Nouns in a Compound Subject or Object
This page focuses on the misuse of a comma by placing one between the two nouns in a compound subject or object. It provides examples of its misuse and explains why it is not correct.
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Grammarly Blog: When to Use Commas and When Not
This page focuses on the uses and misuses of commas. It provides examples of comma uses and explains when the commas are unnecessary.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Within a Comparison
This page focuses on the misuse of a comma by separating the two items being compared. No comma is needed before the conjunction in a comparison unless it includes a non-restrictive clause. Examples of both are provided.