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2. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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   Text from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde featuring one-sentence paragraphs and sentences beginning with the conjunctions "but" and "and". This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions.

3. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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   Disect is an archaic word meaning "to separate by cutting", but has not been in common use since the 17th century. Standard: The Americas are bisected by the Panama canal. Standard: She dissected Smith's dissertation, pointing out scores of errors. Standard: We dissected the eye of a bull in biology class today.

4. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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   The misconception that it is a death sentence stems from a decree issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran in 1989 where he said that the author Salman Rushdie had earned a death sentence for blasphemy. It is debated whether this was a fatwa. The word jihad does not always mean 'holy war'; its literal meaning in Arabic is 'struggle'.

5. 7 common grammar errors that make you look dumb - AOL

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   Don't miss these 21 phrases you've been saying wrong your entire life: 3. Then and Than. ... But the fact of the matter is that these common grammar mistakes rarely go unnoticed. And since they're ...

6. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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   The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word.

7. Comma splice - Wikipedia

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   Comma splices are similar to run-on sentences, which join two independent clauses without any punctuation or a coordinating conjunction such as and, but, for, etc. Sometimes the two types of sentences are treated differently based on the presence or absence of a comma, but most writers consider the comma splice a special type of run-on sentence ...