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‘Imminent’ describes something that’s impending, ’eminent’ describes something as respectable or notable, and ‘immanent’ refers to a quality that’s inherent or innate.
The active voice shows the subject as ‘in action’, and doing something. The passive voice shows the action as being received by or done to
Use wasn’t for singular subject and weren’t when the subject is plural, except when communicating in the subjunctive mood.
‘Was’ is for first-person and third-person singular subjects past tense, and ‘were’ for second-person and third-person plural subjects. With the subjunctive mood, use ‘were’ in
The irregular verb mean only has one past verb form: meant. Meant is both the simple past tense and past participle form of the verb
Both mistook and mistaken are past forms of the present tense verb, mistake. Mistook is the simple past tense, whereas mistaken is the past participle
An ellipsis looks like three dots ‘…’, and signifies an omission of words from a quote. Ellipses are also used to add a dramatic effect
Technically, both cont. and cont’d are correct abbreviations for continued. Cont. is a truncated form, and cont’d is a contracted form for continued.
I.e. is Latin for id est, meaning ‘in essence’. In English, this is understood as ‘that is to say’, or ‘in other words’.