Grammar is essential in good writing. There are four basic rules in grammar. Firstly, the basic principle which is the singular verb versus plural verb. Singular subject must match with singular verb, whereas plural subject must match with plural verb. For example, she is eating versus we are eating. Next, the indefinite pronoun is always followed by singular verb. Examples of indefinite pronoun are anyone, everyone, someone, no one and nobody. They are always followed by is, has and more singular verbs. For example, everyone is eating now. Besides, whether the indefinite pronoun are singular or plural depends on what they are referring to. If the subject is countable the indefinite pronoun is considered as plural. However, if it is an uncountable subject, the indefinite pronoun is always singular. For instant, some of the beads are versus some of the water is. Furthermore, together with, as well as and along with is totally different with and. For those phrases, the subject is just the first person it mentions, whereas and focuses on every people it mentions. For example, I stay along with my cousin (it only focuses on I) versus my cousin and I stay together (it focuses on both subjects).

Other than that, grammar also includes punctuation. Below are some common punctuation that we will use in writing.

1.  (.)   = period/full stop
2.  (?)  = question mark
3.  (!)  = exclamation mark
4.  (,)  = commas
5.  (;)  = semi-colons
6.  (:)  = colons
7.  (/)  = hyphens
8.  (-)  = dashes
9.  (')  = apostrophes

Moreover, there are some confused words in English. Different spelling, just a and e can make a big difference. For  example, stationary versus stationery. Those pencil, eraser and so on are under stationery, not stationary. Stationary brings the meaning of not able to move. Also, there is a consideration of UK and US language. However, we use UK language in Malaysia. For example, colour (UK) versus color (US). These are some confused words that you need to be careful of. You can surf Google to look for more confused words  to avoid bad writing. 

Beside that, most of the people are not able to write good essay because they do not know how to play with the sentence structure. There are three types of sentence structure which are simple sentence, compound sentence and complex sentence. Simple sentence is an independent variable, you only need a subject and a verb. For example, Sally is eating bread. Secondly, compound sentence consists of two independent variables. There will be conjunction in between of two independent variables which is called as FANBOYS. For example, Sally and Brandon are eating bread.

F =  For

A = And

N = Nor

B = But

O = Or

Y = Yet

S = So

Thirdly, complex sentence is a sentence that consists of subordinating conjunction like because, furthermore, since, ever and so on. For example, Sally and Brandon are eating bread because they feel hungry. Knowing how to interchange with these three types of sentence structure will makes your writing becomes interesting. 

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