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.

Clear sentence structure depends on establishing where a sentence ends and the next one begins. Every sentence must have an independent clause. The clause is called independent when it includes a ...

A new study carried out at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab offers a novel insight into the early acquisition of ...

How to use verbs in sentences. Level 1 - Talking about the continuous past Understanding when to use and how to form the continuous past. Level 1 - Talking about the future How use the future tense.

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 ...

In this column, I am going to summarize the last six columns that have been written for ambitious students contemplating ...

Getting to grips with French grammar is not easy - which is why we're starting our new series offering tips and tricks for French learners. This week we're looking at the notorious subjunctive and ...

English teachers might have told students the word "each" is pronoun that gets a singular verb, but that's only part of the story, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

or those unnecessary quotation marks can drastically change the meaning of a sentence. Check out these 22 examples of mistakes that drive grammar nerds up the wall.

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 ...

In this column, I will show you the power of “strong repetition.” First, let's examine the “balanced sentence.” “The power of ...