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Instantly vs. instantaneously
Instantly: very quickly. Instantaneously: happening with no perceptible delay in relation to something else.
Grammarist
Palindrome (poetry)
a poem, line, or sentence that reads the same both forward and backward, either letter by letter or word by word.
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Conjunctions to start sentences
There is no rule against it. It’s common, and has been for centuries, in all types of writing.
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Directional words
-ward vs. -wards In American English, the preferred suffix is -ward—for example, westward, forward, backward, downward. Outside American English, -wards is preferred—so, westwards, forwards, backwards, and downwards. But it’s not a clean distinction, and both suffixes are used everywhere. The -ward suffix may be placed at the end of any noun without …
