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GCSE English doesn’t help

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on GCSE English doesn’t help

You’ve got a GCSE in English, you use English every day, so why are you struggling so much with writing your website content?

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Five reasons to use the passive voice

March 1, 2019March 27, 2019 Lucy Cripps2 Comments on Five reasons to use the passive voice

Six positives if you count annoying any English teacher who’s told you to only write in the active voice. Writing […]

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Breaking the passive habit

February 2, 2019March 27, 2019 Lucy Cripps1 Comment on Breaking the passive habit

There are five good reasons for using the passive, aside from those, using the active is by far the more preferable […]

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20 sentence patterns you can’t ignore

February 14, 2012May 1, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 20 sentence patterns you can’t ignore

I’ve been working and researching sentences almost daily, now, for over a year. Yes I’m a word-nerd, but there you […]

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Extraposition and inversion: glam-sounding simple things

February 7, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on Extraposition and inversion: glam-sounding simple things

Sentence patterns are very predictable in English, and, whether you’re a native-speaker or not, it’s easy to get into a […]

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How to move from one sentence to the next, naturally

January 24, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on How to move from one sentence to the next, naturally

The key to moving naturally from one sentence to the next — which is, of course, the whole point of […]

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There, there: a no-brainer for emphasis in a sentence

January 17, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on There, there: a no-brainer for emphasis in a sentence

This approach to adding emphasis or drawing attention to one part of a sentence is rather grandly called ‘existential there’ […]

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Make words work

January 14, 2012May 1, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on Make words work

Placing emphasis on the right idea and right word in a sentence is an art. In the UK this isn’t […]

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How tiny words can change your writing

January 10, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on How tiny words can change your writing

One tiny little word can make such a difference to the meaning, the deeper meaning, of a sentence. Take a […]

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All power to ‘to be’: cleft sentences

January 4, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on All power to ‘to be’: cleft sentences

Writing teachers can be super mean about ‘to be’. It’s a boring, unemotive, indescriptive verb, a total waste of space, […]

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