Honorifics are titles like Mr, Miss, Ms, Mrs, Doctor, Professor, Dean.

A colon points forward to what follows.  It is commonly used before a list. It is also appropriately used to introduce a quotation.

Semi-colons (;) have two common functions.  First, a semi-colon is like a weak full-stop and separates two closely related sentences,e.g. It is raining heavily; we can’t go out.

‘and’ and ‘but’

An apostrophe shows possession or ownership.

Prepositions used with time expressions often cause problems. Here are some commonly used prepositions and situations in which they are used.

At ISLPR Language Services, writing is the biggest problem we come across with candidates learning English as a second language. During a test, we won’t often tell candidates what format they should write in as we believe this is subjective and, in real life, the format differs from one piece of writing to another even…
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The term “collocation” refers to the way in which words are put together by native speakers in a phrase or sentence.