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Chances are if you love language you'll find something interesting, if not fascinating, in "How to Write a Sentence" ...
Learn how to make your writing more engaging by varying your sentences with some tips and examples from the Writing & Speaking Center at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Getting sentence structure right, is crucial in being able to communicate what you're trying to say in writing. Sentence structure includes: ...
Sentences have been around since the dawn of paragraphs, and indeed since before that, for sentences are essentially the building blobs of a paragraph.
Though he doesn’t mention that experience in his new book, How To Write a Sentence and How To Read One, it’s not far offstage.
Sentences can be multiple clauses or just one, depending on the type. Learn how to tell the difference between types of clauses and how to use them.
It’s not the space between sentences that matters but what’s in that space—the invisible ligatures that connect a sentence to the sentences before and after it. Invisible ligatures: I’m ...
College writing skills: Colleges usually assume students already know how to write sentences, when too often they don't. Why?
Talk of the Nation listeners wrote to the show to tell stories about siblings who've been reunited. They weighed in on the Akron parent who was punished for sending her child to an out-of-district ...
A messenger approaches Macbeth with the news. “The Queen, my lord, is dead.” Before I explain how this sentence forever changed my writing and my teaching, a bit of back story is in order.