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I’m going to fail you today.
I don’t have the answers. I’ve got some ideas. I’ve got techniques for making sure your readers make it all the way to your last sentence, but not the end-all, be-all. I’m hoping you can fill in the blanks.
Without further ado, here are 10 tricks you [...]

It is important to know the eight parts of speech to craft intelligent, and intelligible, sentences. You use them all the time, but if you forget the difference between an adjective and adverb, you wind up coining new usages and infuriating copy editors.

We’ve all been there: It’s 3 a.m. and you’re tossing and turning, asking yourself, “What are transitive verbs?” Sleep well, little ones, for I am about to tell you.
Transitive verbs are those that take an object. Intransitive verbs, by a cruel twist of fate, are verbs that don’t take an object. But wait! There’s more.
Objects [...]

An infinitive begins with “to,” followed by a verb or verb phrase, such as “to walk,” “to go,” or “to explode.” A split infinitive occurs when an adjective is inserted between “to” and the verb.

Subject-verb agreement is a basic rule in writing English. Even so, many writers get it wrong, especially if there is anything between the subject and the verb. Singular subjects take singular verbs; plural subjects take plural verbs.