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Interesting words and languages Have Fun With English. IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings. Pronunciator - Learn 60 languages! The global language tool for public libraries. All About Nouns. They're More Than Just Names, You Know Most people are familiar with proper nouns, like names.

All About Nouns

But did you know there are alsocommon nouns, non-count nouns, and countable nouns? The English word "noun" comes from the Latin nomen, meaning "name. " CALLIHOO Writing Helps. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Greenville Kleiser. Site.swf. English grammar checker, proofreader &plagiarism scanner. 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong. I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward.

20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong

If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery. As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it’s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes.