Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Many generations of students have had certain grammar “truths” drilled into their little heads. One is the ...

Dependent clauses are a group of words that contain a subject and a verb but do not express a complete thought. They’re also called subordinate clauses because they depend on independent clauses to ...

SAILOR 1: We are never going to get up there, we need a conjunction. Conjunctions are joining words. The main thing they do is join two different parts of a sentence. NARRATOR: Well you can’t just ...