English writing tips

A collection of tips encountered during my writing to improve.

• 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.

• consisting vs. containing
• in/of the order of (not on the order of)
• almost equal
• Short sentences are the goal
• pointing and facing

• An important point …
• Further on, …
• Note that …
• validated against