Surprising 7 Little Facts in English To Write Like a Pro

Don’t make these rookie mistakes if you want to get anywhere with your writing.

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During my diploma in Feature writing, I learned a few tips in classy writing. I wrote them down here for you. Grammarly is a brilliant tool, and it can do a lot, but not everything. It pays to have a few tricks up your sleeve, even if you are only writing emails for work.

1. Cliches kill your writing.

Avoid over-used tropes even if they fit your case. ‘at this moment in time’, ‘in any way, shape or form’, and ‘in this day and age’.

2. All these are singular:

Each, every, either, neither, everybody, somebody, none (short for no one).
For example:
You cannot say “Neither Jack nor Jill are good at fetching water”.
Correct: “Neither Jack nor Jill is good at fetching water.”

3. Be aware of the apostrophe in its.

It’s is short for it is. “It’s a beautiful day!”
Its is the possessive case of the pronoun it. “Taj Mahal and its beauty!”
Its’ is just plain wrong.