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- 3 Common Writing Errors and How to Avoid Them
- 3 English Grammar Myths
- 5 Fun Tips to Learn English Faster
- 6 Book Suggestions for English Learners
- A Final Set of Common English Idioms
- A Reference for Connecting Words Part 1
- A Reference for Connecting Words Part 2
- Abbreviations
- Abbreviations (Part One)
- Abbreviations (Part Three)
- Abbreviations (Part Two)
- Acceptable Shifts in Verb Tense
- Acceptable Ways to Join Dependent and Independent Clauses
- Adjective Clauses Quiz
- Adjectives vs. Adverbs
- Adverb Clauses Part One
- Adverb Clauses Part Three
- Adverb Clauses Part Two
- American and British Words That Mean the Same Thing
- Appositives
- Autumn (Fall) Vocabulary
- Avoiding Redundancy
- Best Destinations in Atlanta for ESL Students
- Best of Tips for the TOEFL
- Business English
- Christmas Vocabulary (Part One)
- Christmas Vocabulary (Part Two)
- Clauses vs. Phrases
- Colon Usage
- Colons vs. Semi-Colons
- Comma Usage Quiz
- Common American English Slang
- Common American English Slang Words
- Common Business English Expressions
- Common English Homographs
- Common English Homophones
- Common English Idioms
- Common English Malapropisms
- Common Mistakes That Native English Speakers Make
- Common Native English Speaker Mistakes Part 5
- Commonly Confused Prepositional Idioms
- Commonly Confused Words Quiz
- Comparatives and Superlatives
- Conditional Sentences (Part One)
- Conditional Sentences (Part Two) and Wishes
- Confusing Word Pairs
- Connectives Part Two: Expressing Contrast and Condition
- Contested Usage
- Correlative Conjunctions
- Correlative Conjunctions Quiz
- Count and Noncount Nouns
- Crafting Effective English Sentences
- Crutch Words
- Culture Shock: What it is and How to Manage it
- Dangling Modifiers
- December Quiz
- Differences Between American and British English
- Eliminating Wordiness
- Email and Letter Writing Tips: Salutations
- Empty Phrases
- English Capitalization Rules
- English Contronyms
- English Definite and Indefinite Articles
- English Grammar Myths
- English Grammar Quiz
- English Grammar Quiz: Connectives and Conditional Sentences
- English Mistakes in Advertising
- English Words with Spanish Roots
- Even More Common English Idioms
- Even More Commonly Confused Words
- Even More English Contronyms
- Even More Mistakes That Native English Speakers Make
- Even More Words Whose Meanings Have Changed Over Time
- Expressing Cause and Effect, Contrast, and Condition with Connectives (Part One)
- Four Benefits of Learning a New Language
- Four Fossil Words
- Gerunds
- Gerunds Quiz
- Holiday Vocabulary Part One
- Holiday Vocabulary: Christmas and New Year’s Eve
- Holiday Vocabulary: Halloween
- Holiday Vocabulary: Thanksgiving
- Holiday Vocabulary: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
- How to Close an Email or Letter
- How Traveling Abroad Can Affect Language Learning
- Infinitives (Part One)
- Infinitives (Part Two)
- Informal Conversations: Using Adjectives to Express Enthusiasm or Agreement
- Introduction to Collocations
- Introduction to Phrasal Verbs
- Irregular Plural Nouns
- Irregular Plural Nouns Part One
- Irregular Plural Nouns Part Two
- Irregular Plural Nouns Quiz
- Misplaced Modifiers
- Modals Part Four
- Modals Part One
- Modals Part Three
- Modals Part Two
- Modifying Adverbial Phrases
- More American and British Words with the Same Meanings
- More Common Business English Expressions
- More Common English Homographs
- More Common English Homophones
- More Common English Idioms
- More Commonly Confused Words
- More English Contronyms
- More Fossil Words
- More Mistakes That Native English Speakers Make
- More on Correlative Conjunctions
- More on Noun Clauses
- More on Personal Pronouns
- More on Pronoun Vagueness
- Native Speaker Mistakes in Advertising
- Negative Questions
- Negative Questions
- New Years Vocabulary
- Nonreversible Word Pairs
- Noun Clauses
- Noun Clauses and Related Concepts Quiz
- Numbers and Counting: 0 to 999
- Numbers and Counting: 1000 to 999,999
- Numbers and Counting: Large Numbers
- Parallelism
- Participles
- Passive Voice
- Personal Pronoun Usage Quiz
- Politeness in American English
- Politeness in Modern American English
- Pronoun Vagueness
- Speaking Versus Writing Versus Reading
- Spring Vocabulary (Part One)
- Spring Vocabulary (Part Two)
- Standard American Accent
- Still More Common English Idioms
- Subject-Verb Agreement (One)
- Subject-Verb Agreement (Two)
- Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz
- Subordinate Clauses
- Technology In ESL Classrooms
- Than vs. Then
- Thanksgiving Vocabulary for ESL Students
- The Most Unusual Words in the English Language
- The Order of Adjectives
- Three Word Phrasal Verbs and Phrasal Verbs with Pronouns
- Time Clauses
- Tips for Building Vocabulary
- Tips for Improving Your Score on the TOEFL (Part One)
- Tips for Improving Your Score on the TOEFL (Part Two)
- Tips for Reading Older English Work
- Transitional Words and Phrases
- Tricky Pairs and Groups of Words Part Four
- Tricky Pairs and Groups of Words Part One
- Tricky Pairs and Groups of Words Part Three
- Tricky Pairs and Groups of Words Part Two
- Tricky Words Quiz
- Types of Collocations
- Types of English Sentences
- Types of Personal Pronouns
- Unconventional Sentence Structures (Part One)
- Unconventional Sentence Structures (Part Two)
- Understanding Common U.S. Slang
- Using Apostrophes
- Verb Tense Consistency Quiz
- Verb Tense Consistency Quiz
- Verb Tenses
- Verb Tenses (Part Two)
- Verb Tenses Quiz
- When to Use Passive Voice
- When to Use Was and Were
- Which versus That
- Who vs. Whom
- Whoever vs. Whomever
- Winter Vocabulary (Part One)
- Winter Vocabulary (Part Two)
- Words Whose Meanings Have Changed Over Time
- Words Whose Meanings Have Changed Over Time
- Writing Numbers (Part One)
- Writing Numbers (Part Two)
- Writing Out Numbers
- Yet More Fossil Words
- Yet More Mistakes That Native English Speakers Make
- Yet More Words Whose Meanings Have Changed Over Time
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