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Writing Point
Writing Point is a meeting point and resource for FSV UK faculty and researchers who wish to write academic texts in English. Whether it be point counterpoint or point of view, writing to the point and not beside the point, points well made and those well taken.
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Words
Saying No: Deny, Reject, Decline, or Refuse?
In academic writing, small choices can have big consequences. This is especially true when expressing disagreement, non-acceptance, or opposition. English offers a surprisingly rich set of verbs that all seem…
Laura Juliet Straková
2 min read
Words
Lest
The words “ We Forget” are spoken on Remembrance Day, commemorating the end of the First World War when the armistice brought hostilities to an end “at the 11th hour…
Andrew Goodall
3 min read
Frequent mistakes
in the past, in those days
The various past tenses in English permit temporal ordering and indications of having or not having finished. An adverbial indicating a temporal duration in or into the past acts as…
Andrew Goodall
3 min read