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 ...

Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example. But sometimes studying the English sentence from a larger perspective is useful.

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

Sample sentences have long been a standard feature of many online and offline dictionaries. Starting today, Google Translate will also feature sentences that put translated words into context. Unlike ...

In some languages, speakers say each word in a sentence with equal stress. That is true for Japanese, for example. But, as you know, that is not true for English. If you are listening to this program, ...

When combining two complete sentences with a conjunction ("and," "but," "or," "for," or "yet"), precede the conjunction with a comma. Example: Still, the sun is slowly getting brighter and hotter, and ...

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

Simple Sentences is an engaging PowerPoint teaching resource (with 3 accompanying worksheets) designed to help lower KS2 children recognise simple sentences and learn how to use them in their own ...

I designed this sentence-writing resource to support learners working at Entry Levels 1, 2 and 3 in Functional Skills English. It’s ideal for building writing confidence, sentence control, and ...