Improve your English
This section gives you lots of advice on good writing, helping you to avoid making some of the most common mistakes of usage. Do you worry about the correct use of hopefully, for example, or wonder what the difference is between affect and effect or flaunt and flout? Are you uncertain about whether to say different from or different than or if you should say ‘a historic event’ or ‘an historic event’?
Explore the links below to find clear and straightforward guidance on these topics and many more. You can find more help with the correct use of English in Grammar tips.
All right or alright?
Between you and me
Bored by, of, or with?
Can or may?
Different from, than, or to?
‘He or she’ versus ‘they’
A historic event or an historic event?
Hopefully
Like
May or might?
Onto or on to?
Relative clauses
Shall or will?
Themselves or themself?
Who or whom?
Between you and me
Bored by, of, or with?
Can or may?
Different from, than, or to?
‘He or she’ versus ‘they’
A historic event or an historic event?
Hopefully
Like
May or might?
Onto or on to?
Relative clauses
Shall or will?
Themselves or themself?
Who or whom?
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