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Reference & Anaphora

How "she", "it" and "that" point back to earlier words — the links that let you write without repeating yourself

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Existential "There": How to Introduce New Information Without Naming a Subject Yet

"There's a problem" — the handy "there" that lets you announce something new before you say what it is

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Cleft & Pseudo-Cleft Sentences (Advanced)

"It was Sam who broke it" — how splitting a sentence lets you spotlight the exact part that matters

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Fronting & Inversion

Moving a word to the front for effect — "Never had I seen…" — how flipping the usual order adds drama

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End-Weight & End-Focus

Save the big, important idea for the end of a sentence — why the last words carry the most punch

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Why UK & US English Diverged (Capstone)

How one language ended up with two spellings, two vocabularies and two styles — the whole British–American story.

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Topic, Comment & Given vs New

Start with what your reader already knows, then add the new bit — the old-to-new flow that keeps writing easy to follow

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Common Errors

Why Do My Descriptions Land on the Wrong Word?

"Running for the bus, my bag fell" — how a describing phrase drifts onto the wrong thing, and how to anchor it

Roger Fielding 4 min read
Common Errors

Fragments, Run-Ons & Comma Splices

The three ways a sentence goes wrong at its edges — too short, too long, or wrongly joined; each with a fix

Roger Fielding 4 min read