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Demonstrative pronouns are used to point to people, places or things in a sentence. More specifically, they are used to indicate proximity or distance – in time or space – between the speaker and the person, place or thing being referred to. This type of pronouns can therefore help make your…

Relative pronouns refer to people, animals, objects and concepts mentioned in the preceding main clause. Danish relative pronouns, e.g. ‘der’, ‘som’, ‘hvis’, can be used regardless of the gender, religious belief and ‘aliveness’ of the term referred to.

In English, however, it is important to…

The Danish translation for today is ‘i dag’. However, many (native Danes) confuse the spelling of the word and write ‘idag’, because the two words are pronounced together. But the 'i' is a prepositional conjunction and not part of the noun ‘dag’.

Therefore, ‘i dag’ is always written in two words.

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Even when your spellchecker doesn’t sound the alarm and redline your document, you can’t know for sure that you haven’t misspelled a word.

You may accidentally have chosen the wrong word class, e.g. used a noun when you should have used a verb: extent vs extend. The problem could also be the…