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Grammar Faux Pas Social Media Grammar Tips

The difference between Thank you, thankyou, and thank-you

We’re only going to cover one topic today and it’s the difference between thank you (as two words), thankyou (as one word), and thank-you (hyphenated). This one can be confusing so this should be a helpful post!

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Grammar Faux Pas Social Media Grammar Tips

Three ways to improve your marketing

Pretty simple post this time and we’re gonna look at three things to improve your writing, including the difference between colons and semicolons, and the correct construction of bullet points. Let’s dive on in!

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Commonly Confused Words

Give peace a chance: more words that sound the same

Today’s specials are more words that may sound the same but are not to be confused in your writing, including Moose and Mousse, and Peace and Piece.

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Grammar Faux Pas Social Media Grammar Tips

I could care less: phrases gone wrong

This post is going to look at five phrases that are often misquoted. Using these phrases correctly in your writing will surely make you sound more professional.

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Commonly Confused Words

Compliment and Complement and other confusing words

It’s another edition of when words go wrong. In this issue we’re going to look at Compliment vs Complement, Bowl vs Bowel, Addition vs Edition, as well as a couple others.

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Random Acts of Error

Proofreading 101

We’re going to do something a little bit different here and look at a few pieces of writing and see if we can spot all the errors. Maybe you might even get more than me? Who knows?

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Commonly Confused Words

Formally and Formerly and other words you’re getting wrong

It’s another round of commonly confused words. Once again we’ve got some words which look and sound the same – but are not to be confused! We’ve got five up for grabs here, including Formally and Formerly and Gentleman and Gentlemen.

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Commonly Confused Words

All we need is a little patience: Words that look the same but aren’t

Today’s edition will focus on some similar-looking and even sounding words. Do you get confused between Apologies and Apologise? Can I assist you in separating Assistants and Assistance? Running out of patience with Patience and Patients? Look at these and more in this edition of Commonly Confused Words.

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Random Acts of Error

Improve your social media posts

Introducing a brand new segment! Here, we’ll look at a few social media flops and take a look at how they could have…. Well… been improved. As we’re looking at posts and trying to work out their meaning for their intended audience, I feel it’s a pretty good exercise and you might even learn a thing or two. After all, communication is all about your message being understood by others, right?

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Commonly Confused Words

Don’t confuse these religious words

This edition of Commonly Confused Words will focus on some religious words and their homonyms, such as Heal vs Heel, and Angels vs Angles.