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60-second quiz
Author : Cathy Relf
Posted : 05 / 09 / 12
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Over the past year, we’ve been running a series called 60-second fix in our monthly e-bulletin. Now it’s time to find out whether you’ve been paying attention. Challenge your colleagues to a quick round …
How did you get on? Full marks, we hope! Feel free to show off in the comments field below. Also, let us know if you have a quandary you’d like us to do a 60-second fix for in future.
And if you got any wrong and want to revisit the articles, here’s a handy index:
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Should you write: a) ‘Last autumn, I led the Pegasus project’, or b) ‘Last autumn, I lead the Pegasus project’? The answer is a). Led is the past tense and past participle of the verb to lead. The confusion arises for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the verb to read keeps the same spelling when […]
14 / 08 / 12
This is one of the trickiest homophones to remember, partly because the spellings are only one letter apart, and partly because there is no good reason for the difference (both stem from the Latin complere, meaning ‘to fill up’). Sadly, ours is not to reason why, but simply to learn the difference: to complement is […]
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