1,157 prompts matching "Practise: distinguishing commonly confused word pairs in formal writing"
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Adjuncts of place, time and manner
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Nouns to adjectives, verbs to adverbs
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Relative and demonstrative pronouns compared
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Noun phrases: structure and function
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Adjectival phrases and their function
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Adverbial phrases: form and function
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Concord with collective nouns
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Conditional sentences: all four types
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Modal verbs for obligation and possibility
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Direct speech to reported speech with tense backshift
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Quantifiers and number agreement
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Vocabulary of transport by road, rail, air and sea
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Vocabulary for higher education and university life
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Vocabulary of history and archaeology
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When a compound modifier takes no hyphen
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Punctuation that carries a long argument
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Dictation practice with punctuation and correction
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Write a dialogue between two characters
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Write a short story with clear characters and plot
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Write a biography or autobiography extract
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