The words as and so have many different uses in English, but today we’ll look at one in which they work together to create comparisons: the as…so too sentence pattern: As Louis aged, so too did the manner in which he was depicted. In such constructions, as means like. and is used to compare similar things—not really stand-alone things (nouns), […]
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The Adjective in English Grammar: Explanation and Examples
An adjective modifies a noun; that is, it provides more detail about a noun or pronoun. This can be anything from color to size to temperature to personality. Adjectives usually occur just before the nouns they modify, but they can also follow a linking verb (in these instances, adjectives can modify pronouns as well): […]
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19 of the Best Headlines Ever Written
One of the worst inventions in the history of writing is the clickbait headline. Yes, people have used writing to do things far more nefarious than luring audiences into ad-infested articles about shocking celebrity scandals and botched plastic surgeries, but is there any device of writing that more consistently and more effectively assaults the intelligence of […]