As an English teacher, it can be challenging to help students identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence. However, it is essential that students grasp these concepts as they are ...

Notice that this student used not one, not two, but eight perfectly grammatical sentences to say that their grammar is bad — so bad that it’s standing in the way of pursuing dreams in a scientific ...

The début of our new series on language in all its facets: grammar, syntax, vocabulary, spelling, usage, and punctuation. In this episode, Mary Norris talks about commas. at the New Yorker, sometimes ...

One way to introduce the concept of compound subjects and predicates is to provide your students with sentences that contain clues about what the compound part might be. For example, you might use ...