Heteronyms: Words That Sound the Same, Mean Different Things

Heteronyms are words that share the same spelling but have different pronunciations and meanings. Explore their impact on language and communication.

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Helping Verb

Helping verbs, also known as auxiliary verbs, work with main verbs to create verb phrases. They express tense, mood, and voice, adding crucial grammatical information to sentences.

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Gunning Fog Index

The Gunning Fog Index is a readability formula used to estimate the years of education needed to understand a piece of writing. It measures sentence length and the use of…

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Grammar

Grammar encompasses the structural rules governing the use of language. It dictates how words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences, ensuring clarity and meaning in communication.

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Glossary

A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. It serves as a quick reference for understanding specialized vocabulary.

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Understanding Gists: A Quick Guide to GitHub’s Snippet Tool

GitHub Gists are a simple way to share code snippets and text. They are perfect for quick sharing of code, configuration files, or any piece of text you want to…

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Understanding Gerunds in English Grammar

Gerunds are verb forms ending in '-ing' that function as nouns. They are essential for sentence structure and adding variety to your writing. Learn to identify and use them effectively.

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Gender

Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender-diverse people. It is distinct from sex assigned at birth.

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Future Progressive (Future Continuous) Tense

The Future Progressive tense describes an ongoing action in the future. It's used to talk about what will be happening at a specific time or over a period in the…

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Future Perfect Progressive (Future Perfect Continuous)

The future perfect progressive tense describes an action that will be ongoing up to a specific point in the future. It emphasizes the duration of the action.

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