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What Is a Phrase?

“Following our conversation last Thursday” sat oddly on the page — here's what phrases are doing

Roger Fielding 7 min read
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What Is a Phrase?

Every word looked right, yet "phrase" got circled anyway — here's what your teacher really meant

Roger Fielding 7 min read
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What Are the Parts of Speech?

Halfway through a Friday rewrite, something feels clunky — the word classes behind it

Roger Fielding 7 min read
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What Are the Parts of Speech?

A proud paragraph comes back covered in scrawl — here's what all those labels actually mean

Roger Fielding 8 min read
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UK vs US English — An Overview

Colour or color? one client email, one tiny hesitation — the differences that actually trip people up

Roger Fielding 11 min read
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UK vs US English — An Overview

Type "colour" and your screen fights back with a red line — here's why two Englishes exist

Roger Fielding 9 min read
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Subject–Verb Agreement (US)

The cursor hovers over Send while “the team is” or “are” quietly argues with itself — settled here

Samantha Callahan 9 min read
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Subject–Verb Agreement (US)

You type your answer and something feels off — here's how to make subjects and verbs match

Samantha Callahan 8 min read
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Subject–Verb Agreement (UK)

You weigh “the team are” against “the team is” before hitting send — the UK answer, clarified

Roger Fielding 8 min read
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Subject–Verb Agreement (UK)

"Verb doesn't agree with subject" in the margin again — here's how to finally fix that

Roger Fielding 8 min read
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Verb & Preposition Usage (US)

“I've gotten the report” — is got secretly correct too? the American verb quirks, sorted

Samantha Callahan 10 min read
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Verb & Preposition Usage (US)

"I've gotten so much better" gets a shrug — here's what's really going on with tricky verbs

Samantha Callahan 9 min read