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Building Phrases
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A phrase is a group of two or more grammatically linked words without a subject and predicate -- a group of grammatically-linked words with a subject and predicate is called a clause.
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English
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Building Clauses
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A clause is a collection of grammatically-related words including a predicate and a subject (though sometimes is the subject is implied). A collection of grammatically-related words without a subject or without a predicate is called a phrase.
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English
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Building Sentences
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Some English sentences are very basic:
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English
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Writing Paragraphs
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A thesis is a single, focused argument, and most paragraphs prove or demonstrate a thesis through explanations, examples and concrete details. This chapter will help you learn to write and analyse the types of paragraphs common in academic essays.
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English
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Diction
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Your diction is simply your choice of words. There is no single, correct diction in the English language; instead, you choose different words or phrases for different contexts:
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English
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Spelling
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Spell checkers will catch some kinds of errors, but not all. For example, they tend to miss homonyms -- words which are pronounced the same way but spelled differently, such as site/ sight, there/ their/ they're, and its/ it's. Most spell-checkers, for example, would report no error in the following sentence, despite the fact that there are three serious spelling mistakes:
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English
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Homophones
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Homophones are words that have the same sound but different meanings (and may or may not have different spellings).
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English
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Links
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Here are other links and points of reference, to assist you in your study.
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English
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Basic Math Definitions
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In math problems there are many ways of saying the same thing. We have collected some of them here.
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Maths
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Numbers
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In this section we have a look at numbers – Integers, Even and Odd numbers, Decimal Places, Prime Numbers, Rounding Numbers, Cardinal, Ordinal, Nominal Numbers, and Roman Numerals.
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Maths
