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IntroductionPhrasesIntroductionPrepositional Phrases: The Big Daddy of PhrasesAppositives: Something More for Your MoneyVerbal Phrases: Talk Soup Here, we start the construction of your…Brewer's: Intrigue
(2 syl.), comes from the Greek thrix, hair, whence the Latin tricæ, trifles or hairs, and the verb intrico, to entangle; the Germans have the verb trugen, to deceive. Source: Dictionary…Common Usage Dilemmas: Split Infinitives: To Boldly Go Where Everyone Else Goes
Split Infinitives: To Boldly Go Where Everyone Else GoesCommon Usage DilemmasIntroductionDangling Modifiers: CounterintelligenceMisplaced Modifiers: Lost and FoundMixed Metaphors: A Dollar Late and a…Brewer's: Active
Ac′tive Active verbsVerbs which act on the noun governed. Active capitalProperty in actual employment in a given concern. Active CommerceExports and imports carried to and fro in our…Brewer's: Ivory Gate of Dreams
(The). Dreams which delude pass through this gate, those which come true pass through the Gate of Horn. This fancy depends upon two puns: ivory in Greek is elephas, and the verb elephairo…Brewer's: Grammar
Zenodotos invented the terms singular, plural, and dual. The scholars of Alexandria and of the rival academy of Pergamos were the first to distinguish language into parts of speech, and to…Frequently Misspelled Words
The Most Common Misspellings English spelling can get rather tricky. It used to be much harder--the English language changed a lot after the Middle Ages in an event called the Great Vowel Shift.…Brewer's: Sty
or Stye. Christ styed up to heaven. Halliwell gives sty = a ladder, and the verb would be to go to heaven, as it were, by Jacob's ladder. The Anglo-Saxon verb stigan means to ascend. The…Brewer's: Temple
(London) was once the seat of the Knights Templars. (See above.) Temple The place under inspection, from the Latin verb tueor, to behold, to look at. It was the space marked out by the…Word Choice
Don't "thesaurusize." The second trap into which many students fall is thinking that big words make good essays. Advanced vocabulary is fine if it comes naturally to you, and…Trending
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