====== English writing tips ====== A collection of tips encountered during my writing to improve. ===== Times in english ===== * Present tense * Present perfect: Has started in the past and is somehow connected to now (have verb(3) ) * Present perfect continuous: From the past to just now. (have been +ing) * Past simple: Happened in the past and is finished. ===== Writing Reports ===== * consisting vs. containing * in/of the order of (**not** on the order of) * almost equal * Short sentences are the goal * pointing and facing ==== Phrases ==== * An important point ... * Further on, ... * Note that ... * validated against