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href="/Adjective">adjectiv...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/daiquiri-correct-spelling"><strong>daiquiri - correct spelling</strong></a></p><p>daiquiri <a href="/Noun">noun<br></a>Example: She ordered a strawberry daiquiri....</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dairy_vs._diary"><strong>Dairy vs. Diary</strong></a></p><p>Simply inverting the order of two letters in a word can completely change its meaning. This is exactly the situation for "dairy" and "diary", which are two nouns spelled very similarly. This similarity is also the one that causes confusion, because p...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dalmatian-correct-spelling"><strong>Dalmatian - correct spelling</strong></a></p><p>Dalmatian Proper <a href="/Noun">noun<br></a>Not Dalmation.Example: The Dalmatian rode in the fire truck.Example: The young ...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dangling-modifier"><strong>dangling modifier</strong></a></p><p>A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause that does not hook up to any other word or phrase in the sentence. The dangling modifier is a gross grammatical error, one you want to avoid.The error typically arises with ...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dangling_modifier"><strong>Dangling Modifier</strong></a></p><p>A modifier literally means something or someone that modifies or adjusts something. But when it comes to Eng...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dangling-participle"><strong>dangling participle</strong></a></p><p> See <a href="/dangling-modifier">dangling modifier<br></a>....</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dash"><strong>Dash</strong></a></p><p>Punctuation is the basic element of English grammar and without it a sentence is not only incomplete but als...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/data"><strong>data</strong></a></p><p>In formal writing, it’s probably best to treat this word as a <a title="plural" href="/plural">plural<br></a>. Thus: the data are.The singular is ...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/data_vs._information"><strong>Data vs. Information</strong></a></p><p> The terms data and information are frequently used interchangeably in everyday language, yet they hold distinct meanings, particularly in fields such as information technology, computer science, and linguistics. ...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/data-datum-vocabulary"><strong>data, datum - vocabulary</strong></a></p><p>data, datum - <a href="/noun">noun<br></a>Facts, statistics, or items of information. Note:Data is a plural of datum, which is originally a Latin noun meaning “something given.” Today, dat...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dates-day-month-year"><strong>Dates - Day-Month-Year</strong></a></p><p>If you depict dates by day-month-year, not month-day-year, do not use commas. Make certain you use a consistent system throughout the document. Those disliking the required commas for month-day-year expressions used as adjectives (e.g., "your July 1,...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dates-month-day-year"><strong>Dates - Month-Day-Year</strong></a></p><p>Comma After the YearWhen you indicate month, day, and year, put a comma after the day and after the year (unless some other punctuation mark, like a period or question mark, follows the year). Include these commas even if the...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dates-month-year"><strong>Dates - Month-Year</strong></a></p><p>If you omit the day and just include the month and year, do not use a comma: In January 1945 he was born in a large southern city. We now wish to respond to your July 2006 letter....</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dative_case"><strong>Dative Case</strong></a></p><p>The grammatical cases in English language are very important to know if you want to excel in English writing...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dative_case"><strong>Dative Case</strong></a></p><p>English is an old language and there are some terms that were used in the Old English which are not so commo...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/daughter-correct-spelling"><strong>daughter - correct spelling</strong></a></p><p>daughter <a href="/Noun">noun<br></a>Example: Their daughter learned to speak at an early age....</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dauntless-vocabulary"><strong>dauntless - vocabulary</strong></a></p><p>dauntless - <a href="/adjective">adjective<br></a>Fearless, intrepid, bold. For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.—Robert Frost ”Bond and Free” (1920) Note: You may ...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/daybreak-correct-spelling"><strong>daybreak - correct spelling</strong></a></p><p>daybreak <a href="/Noun">noun<br></a>Example: We talked until daybreak....</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/de_facto_vs._de_jure"><strong>De facto vs. De jure</strong></a></p><p>The terms de facto and de jure are Latin expressions that have evolved into widely used legal and philosophical concepts. They serve to differentiate between what is actually practiced and what is legally recogniz...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/deal_vs._dealer"><strong>Deal vs. Dealer</strong></a></p><p>Deal vs. Dealer ...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dear_vs._deer"><strong>Dear vs. Deer</strong></a></p><p>Dear vs. Deer ...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/dearth-vocabulary"><strong>dearth - vocabulary</strong></a></p><p>dearth - <a href="/noun">noun<br></a>Scarcity, inadequate supply (usually of something desirable). Reverence is the highest quality of man’s nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfo...</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/death-correct-spelling"><strong>death - correct spelling</strong></a></p><p>death <a href="/Noun">noun<br></a>Example: “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me….” —Emily Dickinson....</p></td></tr><tr><td class="tal qx"><p><a style="font-size:17px;" href="/debase-vocabulary"><strong>debase - vocabulary</strong></a></p><p>debase - <a href="/verb">verb<br></a>To lower in character or virtue, to reduce in value or quality, as in The Fed debased the dollar; to lower in rank, significance, or dignity. 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