Man in striped blue shirt and glasses: A sentence should open, introduce a subject, deal with that subject and then come to a conclusion. Man in blue jumper and hat: Start, middle and end. Man in ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

A writer considers the punctuation of their writing to add clarity and precision. In the Higher English Critical Reading assessment, you should consider an analysis of the basic building blocks of the ...

If you want to improve your grammar, you may find it helpful to analyze how sentences are structured. FoxType does the work for you, visually breaking down your sentences so you can see how each word ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Years ago, a copy editor working on a reporter’s story changed some of the “whiches” to “thats” when they were being ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Critics have generally considered Henry James's style to be a major element of his prose fiction. Previous discussions of his style have ...