Less as an adjective and an adverb
The word less can be an adjective and an adverb. It is an adjective when it goes before a noun. As an adjective, less is used before an uncountable noun. Example: less money I...
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When to leave words out
When we connect two coordinate clauses, words for repeated ideas can be left out in the second clause. Study the examples given below. Madhu is pretty. Madhu is intelligent. Madhu is pretty and intelligent....
Errors in the use of adjective / relative clauses
Read the sentence given below. It is taken from one of the essays I recently corrected. Can you identify the error in that sentence? For example, if there is only one sports complex in...
Why it is important to avoid obscure words from your writing
I came across the following sentence in one of the essays that I recently corrected. On a large scale, in the medias, where the subscriber base is humongous in general, there are a voluminous...
Parallelism problems in sentences
Read the following sentence. Freedom of speech is one of the hottest and largely debated topic in recent times. Can you identify the error in it? The problem with this sentence is that it...
Sentences that do not have an independent clause
Read the sentence given below. Though it is still debated whether there should be separate schools for boys and girls. This is a sentence fragment. It does not have an independent clause. This is...
Beginning a sentence with words like never, only and hardly
The following sentence appeared in a recent essay I corrected. Only in recent years, people start to “break the walls” between genders. There are several mistakes with it. The student used the simple present...
Somebody, anybody, someone, anyone etc
There is no significant difference between somebody and someone or anybody and anyone. The forms with –body are very informal. The difference between somebody and anybody or something and anything are the same as...
Using adjective clauses correctly
An adjective clause serves the same purpose as an adjective. It gives additional information about a noun. Note that adjective clauses go immediately after the nouns that they modify. Study the examples given below....
How to avoid sentence fragments from your essay?
Sentence fragments are a very common mistake. Read the example given below. It is not an independent sentence because it does not have an independent clause. Although it is sometimes thought that studying at university...
