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So how do you get on with: relative clauses gerunds and infinitives prepositions ?? And do you take risks? Do you try to make it interesting? Read up more here . Tweet Follow @bclasrozas

Beware of spots in front of the eyes... Alternatives to those dangerous three dots - - and so on (and so on). - amongst (many) others. - and many (many) more(!) - etc. or at the start of the list - - including - such as - like Which ones could (should!) Digital Plus have used on this page ? * dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot = S O S

Q. What have this group got in common? A parking. A reality. A casting. Footing. Heavy! A latenight. A marketing. A Ticket. A.They're mistakes waiting to happen! A simple rule – if it's an English word (or looks like one) the chances are about 99:1 that it's used wrongly (from an English point of view) in Spanish. None of the above are used in English how you use them. Your reader can only see them as either a mistake or a mistranslation. Be careful! Brian Smith

Presentation Matters Remember, there is a Distance Test for writing. Can you - - count the number of paragraphs in your writing from a couple of metres away? - get someone to tell you what it is (letter, article) from how it looks from a distance? Stand on the far side of your living room and look at your writing to check!

Something we see in homework quite a lot: lists or groups of examples finishing with three dots like this... Be careful! Unless you actually want to give the impression "the rest of the list is obvious" or "You know how this sentence will end, so I don't need to finish it for you" always use words - and so on or amongst others are two options.