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There’s no there there” was Gertrude Stein’s classic slander of the city of Oakland, Calif. That was the last time a sentence was started successfully with a pronominal, impersonal there.

Learn and revise sentence types and clauses, nouns, adjectives and verbs with this BBC Bitesize GCSE English Language (Eduqas) study guide.

Use adverbs sparingly. At their best, they spice up a verb or adjective. At their worst, they express a meaning already contained in the sentence: The blast completely destroyed the church office ...

One of the most common questions I get is: Which is correct: X or Y? The X and Y don’t matter much. They change from email to email. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a Z or even an A, B and C ...

Not as an adverb, as in, "I am so confused." Not as a conjunction, as in, "She used a crowbar, so it was easy to lift." Not as a pronoun, as in, "There were five or so kumquats in the fridge." ...

Standard Group Plc HQ Office, The Standard Group Center,Mombasa Road. P.O Box 30080-00100,Nairobi, Kenya. Telephone number: 0203222111, 0719012111 ...