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“Collide”: Origin and usage The word “collide” is used quite commonly in written and spoken English. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, “collide” is an intransitive verb which means, “to come together with solid or direct…

Academic writing delivers precise and accurate information, and to this end, places a high premium on well-constructed, meticulously thought-out content. Alas! Often, these sacred attributes lead academic sentences to become long and…

Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Quoting Paraphrasing is when you take someone else’s ideas or words and rephrase them as your own. Summarizing is to give the reader an overview of the key points of a text. Quoting is when you write…

What are the main types of sentences? According to English grammar, sentences are mainly of 4 types: declarative, exclamatory, imperative, and interrogative. While the first simply denotes a statement, the second one points to an…

While writing a manuscript, are you more focused on ideas or writing style? Mostly, ideas get more attention than the writing style. Consequently, the importance of punctuation and sentence structure gets undermined. In formal writing,…

Commas are one of the most misunderstood punctuation marks: the idea that commas can be added to indicate pauses must be dispensed with. In writing, comma usage is guided by sentence structure and readability to enable clear communication…

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”  – Oscar Wilde The previous article described the elementary rules of comma usage. Continuing in that vein,…

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is a frequently misunderstood technology. Many of us hear “AI” and picture Star Wars or other science fiction robots that mimic human behavior with superintelligence. Because of this, it is easy to think that…

Lynne Truss, the author of the well-known English grammar book Eats Shoots & Leaves, once said “There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has…

In part 1 of this article, we talked about what a research paper is and how to get started writing one. Now, you have reviewed the requirements for the paper in detail. You’ve chosen a topic and formulated a thesis statement, which offers a…