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Abbreviations in executive summaries
Acronyms and initialisms
Acronyms: Should you put them in bold?
Active and passive voice
Addressing a couple in correspondence
Adverbs: position of adverbs in a sentence
Advice and advise
Adviser or advisor?
Affect and effect
All ready and already
Although and though
Altogether versus all together
Ampersands (&)
Ampersands: Should you use ‘and’ or ‘&’ in menus?
Anymore versus any more
Apostrophes
Apostrophes with joint or singular ownership
Apostrophes with ‘s’ names
Appendix, addendum, annexure and attachment
Appraise versus apprise
Around versus round
Assure, ensure and insure
Australian and US spelling: -ize or -ise?
Biannual, biennial and bimonthly
Brackets: parentheses, square, angle and curly brackets
Bulleted lists
But and however
Careen versus career
Chair, chairman or chairperson
Collective nouns – singular or plural verbs?
Colons (:)
Colons and semicolons
Commas
Commas: Oxford or serial comma
Commas: Should you use a comma after a date?
Commas: Should you use a comma before etc.?
Common mistakes with bulleted lists
Comparative adjectives
Compared with and compared to
Complement and compliment
Compound nouns create new words
Compound subjects usually take plural verbs
Confused words test
Continually and continuously
Coordinate or co-ordinate?
Currency styles
Dangling modifiers
Decision-making or decision making?
Dependent and dependant

Plural of status
Plurals of acronyms
Practical and practicable
Practice and practise
Premise versus premises
Prepositions – in and at
Principal and principle
Pronouns
Proportional and proportionate
Punctuation with ‘therefore’, ‘furthermore’ and ‘however’
Punctuation: the difference it makes
Quotation marks
Reflexive pronouns – myself, himself, yourself
Replacing the generic ‘he’ with the singular ‘they’
Rules for quotes
Seating or sitting arrangements
Sentences: How to improve your sentences
Series – singular and plural
Shall: how to avoid using shall
Since
Some time or sometime?
Spelling: test your spelling
Spelling: the history of spelling
Squinting adverbial modifiers: what are they and how do you fix them?
Staff or staffs?
Styles in modern business writing
Subject–verb agreement question
Than and then
That – is it necessary in a sentence?
The confusing nature of the English language
There, they’re, their
Title and sentence case
Titled or entitled?
Toward and towards
Unchartered and uncharted
Verbalising nouns
Verbs – using the future tense
Verbs – using the past tense
Verbs – using the present tense
Web address styles
What and which
Whatever
Which and that
While or whilst?
Who and that
Who and whom
Why we contract ‘will not’ to ‘won’t’
Word teasers
‘Had better’ plus verb
‘One or more is’ or ‘one or more are’?
‘Reason is that’ versus ‘reason is because’
‘Than I’ versus ‘than me’
‘Used to do’ and ‘be used to’

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