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Month: October 2018

Posted on October 31, 2018September 29, 2020

Seamlessly or seemlessly? No contest. It’s seamlessly. Commonly confused words (39-40)

3-minute read   This month's comedy club show was seemlessly held together by Liverpudlian compere Silky (by name, not by nature), notes a British English website. …calls…

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Posted on October 4, 2018September 29, 2020

Pompeo and commas and CMOS. How to use commas (1).

5-minute read James Thurber was once asked why there was a comma in the sentence "After dinner, the men went into the living room.” He…

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