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Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the complex-compound sentence. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Most writers worth their fingertip calluses begin as avid readers. We read books, magazines, and websites indiscriminately until we start to notice the w

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Just in Case You Don't Use 'If' It is no surprise that many popular love songs use conditionals. Conditional sentences show that something is true only when something else is true. So, they help us talk about wishes, hopes and even regrets. In her so

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Imagine we are having a conversation about dance. Suddenly I say, Because I love to dance! You might learn something about me: that I love dancing. But you might also look at me strangely since I told you only a reason for something, but I didnt tell

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The 1994 crime film Pulp Fiction tells the story of a gunman, played by Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, the gunman is growing tired of his life of crime. Near the end of the movie, he gives two other criminals a chance to leave a bad situation. -The

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