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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
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…
Lucie Návratová
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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…
Lucie Návratová
3 min read
Words
at present, these days
Often the use of the simple present tense suffices to indicate that an assertion is being made about the present state of affairs, including the “factual present” sense used when…
Lucie Návratová
3 min read