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Rated: E · Crossword Puzzle · Educational · #1994412

Fun puzzle to test your knowledge of grammar, parts of speech and common errors.

Dear WDC Friends,

I am passionate about using the English language correctly. We all make mistakes now and then, but this crossword deals with common errors and under-used elements of this fantastic and somewhat complicated language.

Thanks for playing!



PS, This is my first puzzle so any thoughts or advice would be really appreciated.
Across:
 1 Cross your ? and dot your ?
 3 "I" before "E" except after "C"- odd exception
 5 The brackets around a qualifying or explanatory phrase
 6 High-ranking, distinguished, famous (synonym)
 9 Giving an inanimate thing human characteristics
 12 Describing word for nouns
 13 Describing word for verbs, often ending in -ly [this one's for the Americans (; ]
 16 'Wholely' and 'Holy' are...
 17 Line ending in Poetry that is the same as a previous line
 18 Breaks phrases
 20 'Thomas A. Swift's electrical rifle' Acronym
 22 He said "..."
 24 A few words, not a whole sentence
 25 Verb change in relation to noun
 26 Spoken word in written form
 28 The study of language
Down:
 2 It's like, you know, the same as
 4 Will arrive at any moment
 5 He said that ...
 7 Third person plural pronoun
 8 In-active sentence structure
 10 Active noun or pronoun in a sentence
 11 Noun or pronoun being acted upon by 2 down
 13 Word to link phrases
 14 Action word or phrase
 15 Breaks sentences
 19 Calling one thing by another name to suggest similarity between the two
 21 Someone who talks too much
 23 Plural: ...
 27 Spoken word
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