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I am currently teaching an online course that offers students a chance to renew and improve their grammar skills.

It has been very interesting to participate in the discussion forum hearing so many of them talk about how long it has been since they have thought about some of intricacies of the English language. For example, how long has it been since you thought about action verbs vs. linking verbs, past tense vs. past progressive tense, etc.? Probably a long time, right?

Well, to be honest, it’s been a while since I’ve thought about some of these things as well, but being the word lover and grammar lover I am, it has been fun to renew my own knowledge.

Grammatical Terms Can Be Difficult to Remember

One day I was trying so hard to remember a particular grammatical term; I had to actually look it up on the Internet. It was “conjunctive adverbs.” I could name them, but for the life of me, I could not remember what they were called. Remember – therefore, however, nevertheless, moreover? If you use these words between two independent clauses, you must use a semi-colon before and a comma after the word. You knew that, right?

It has been interesting to think in these terms again. Most importantly, I am enjoying seeing my students remember some of the things they learned long ago and also begin to put into practice using better grammar in their writing. Does it make a difference, oh yeah! Try turning in an important business letter full of errors to your boss and see what happens!

Check out this business writing skills test of confusing pairs of words and see how you fare (or fair)? Which is it??? Let me hear about your results.

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