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Vocabulary and grammar

When we talk about developing communication skills in English, vocabulary and grammar are equally important as these are the basis of making someone understand what we’re saying. There is always a vacuum for learning new words in English speaking and writing. All the forms of written English result from constant …

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Literary Devices usage in creative writing

Students. Lazy student. Literary devices.

Master the art of writing essays and reading poetry with knowledge of literary devices. These word tools are used to create imagery for readers and listeners. They make narrative and descriptive works more engaging and enjoyable rather than the use of plain adjectives. Literary devices can be literal or figurative …

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Sentence: 5 tips to writing perfect word order

Sentence

We learn that a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop or exclamation point. Many students do just that but with fragmented expressions that make no sense. This happens with students at all levels of education and may occur because they never really grasped the …

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Consonants – digraphs, trigraphs, hard, soft, blends, silent sounds

Consonants - sh sounds, chef, passion, sugar, ocean, official, precious

Consonants are the letters of the alphabet other than the vowels a e i o u. The ones in the English alphabet are b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z. In English, some consonants are very …

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Vowels: A simple guide on syllables, digraphs, diphthongs, trigraphs, long, short and silent

Vowels, short, long, silent, exceptions for reading lessons

Vowels in the English alphabet are a e i o u and sometimes y. The sounds of vowels can be represented by one, two, three and four letters. The teams that represent a single vowel sound also have the same sound as single letters. This is like the sound made …

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