Selecting the right sentence types for your papers can be confusing if you can’t differentiate them, making it difficult to write a good essay. Therefore, most successful scholars take time to analyze ...

EXERCISE 2: Identify the parts of sentences in the given examples. EXERCISE 3: Identify the parts of a simple sentence with examples. EXERCISE 4: Identify the parts of simple sentences. EXERCISE 5: ...

In a previous write-up, we started a discourse on PHRASES and CLAUSES as salient particles of a SENTENCE. STRUCTURAL and FUNCTIONAL types of sentences were also outlined as critical aspects worthy of ...

1. Relative clauses are “embedded” grammatical structures, contained inside other grammatical structures. 2. Relative clauses play a central role in English discourse. 3. Relative clause knowledge is ...

The Everyday Grammar team often receives questions about academic writing. Students around the world want to improve their academic writing so that they can gain admission – and succeed – in a college ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

Today’s topic is going to be a bit technical. Although it centres on three common grammatical elements, it involves some technicalities, the type we usually want to as much as possible play down in ...