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Assure means making a promise or giving a guarantee to help people overcome fear, anxiety, or insecurity about something. Ensure means making sure that something will or will not happen as promised. Insure means a formal agreement between…

Affect vs Effect - In most cases, affect works as a verb as it influences or impacts something. Usually, effect works as a noun. It is the result of an impact or an action on something.

Rare vs Scarce - ‘Rare’ means unique. It indicates that the frequency of something happening or existing is less. Moreover, all scarce items are not rare! At times, non-rare or common items can be scarce too.

While few connotes a negligible quantity or an insignificantly small number, a few signifies 'some' or 'a handful.'

Precede vs Proceed - Precede means to happen before something or to go in front of someone. Proceed means to continue or to go/move forward.

Most of us interchange the phrases in this paper and in this study quite liberally. Both phrases help the author to set the context and are usually used within the premises of academia and research. But, what if I tell you that these…

Adsorption vs Absorption - Absorption is a chemical or physical process by which an ion, atom, or molecule enters a gas, liquid, or solid. Adsorption is the physical process by which a liquid, gas, or suspended matter gathers on the surface…

Have you found yourself reading something and then retracing a sentence? Sensing that you missed something? On re-reading, you find that you were right! The sentence is incomplete. You’ve just come across a sentence fragment. …

Academic writing is full of specifications, conventions and rules. If you want your writing to be effective, you need to adhere to them. This three-part series (Part 1 and Part 2), tells you how to use academic phrases in different writing…

In the first article of this three-part series, we shed light on how to use academic phrases in different scenarios. We also mentioned how authors benefit from using an AI-powered tool such as Trinka, a writing assistant designed for…