Trigger warning: I’m about to list some terms that might give you nightmares. Do you remember these?
- Gerunds
- Participles
- Sentence diagrams
- Split infinitives
- Absolute modifiers
Just talking about them might cause you to flash back to middle school. You’re sitting in a sweaty classroom, listening to the chalk squeak as your teacher writes the definition for each term on a dusty chalkboard…
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