Spanish has lots of pairs of words that have similar meanings (or, when translating into English, are the same word) but which are slightly different. These pesky pairs include ‘saber’ and ‘conocer’ (to know), ‘ir’ and ‘irse’ (to go and to leave) and ‘pedir’ and ‘preguntar’ (to ask.) One of the first pesky pairs we …
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Sometimes, life happens and you’re a few minutes late for work, often through no fault of your own. If you are five minutes late once or twice, writing an apology letter could actually backfire. It might come across as a little overly dramatic, which is not a signal that you want to send at work. …
At some point in time, people leave us for good. When this happens, we usually have to send our “Thank you for your condolences” messages to those people who show their sympathy. There might be no best nor definite way to express our gratitude. But, rest assured that we can tweak these kinds of expressions …
In these days of communicating by text or video calls, there are still reasons to write letters. You might write a cover letter for a poetry submission, or you might write an open letter if there is an issue you feel strongly about. However, there are still reasons to write personal letters as well. A …
Although widely used and clear enough in terms of meaning, “Thank you for checking on me” may sometimes come off as an inappropriate message. Why so? Well, that’s likely because we share different levels of relationships with those people who may check up on us. To avoid sending out-of-place gratitude messages, we have listed twenty …
Conjunctions. Yeah, the notorious ones. Not everybody likes them, but they are extremely helpful cohesive devices in any language. Albert Einstein once said, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” Without conjunctions, the flow of our ideas would be just as disorganized …
Cover letters are required for many different types of job applications, but job postings rarely include any guidance on what is expected to be included in these letters. This can leave you wondering exactly what you should write, especially when it seems like you’ve put all the relevant information in your resume already. We’ll help …
There are three main types of conjunctions: Coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions. In this article, we will tackle correlative conjunctions. Let’s roll our ball by starting with the usual quick answer. What are correlative conjunctions? Correlative conjunctions are the conjunctions that come in pairs and are inseparable. They are very useful in …
“Chief, I’ve got news for you,” says the petite intern journalist as she barged into the newsroom. “Seventy-eight people were actually on board the ship that sank,” she continued. The gorgeous thirty-five-ish bachelor editor-in-chief placidly, yet sarcastically, responded, “Shouldn’t you call that ‘newses’ instead?” If you got here on our site after reading something like …