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Adding infographics to your blog or website is great way to come up with fresh topics and insightful tips when you need a new post but don’t have a lot of time. Grammar.net features a number of professionally designed infographics that accompany relevant topics. Anyone can add these free infographics to their site by inserting…

Most misunderstood words are born in spoken speech; at one time, they would only gradually bleed into writing. Whether due to an honest typo or a flat out error, confusion in grammar and misunderstood words can now fly across the planet at lightning speed, thanks to email forwarding and “copy/paste” in social media. Continued exposure…

Sometimes a verb is attached to other words that assist it; word groups consisting of a verb and its helpers are called “verb phrases”. To download a high-resolution poster click here. Embed this image to your site: [Infographic provided by Grammar.net]   Prepositional Phrase A quick explanation of the prepositional phrase can help in understanding…

In writing, sentences are considered to be of “active” or “passive” construction (“voice”) depending on where the emphasis is placed. If the emphasis is placed on the subject, the sentence is considered active, but if emphasis is placed on the object of the action, the sentence is passive. Wikipedia’s passive voice definition states, “The passive…