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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.


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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

 

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.

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There, They're, Their

 

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Ending a Sentence with a Preposition

 

An old-fashioned rule we can no longer put up with.

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How to Use a Dictionary

 

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When Body Parts Are Also Verbs

 

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