The way in which you put sentences together really changes the meaning and how clear and good your writing or speaking is.

ARE there any hard-and-fast rules on the length of English-language sentences? Herman Melville begins his classic whaling novel "Moby Dick" with only three words: "Call me Ishmael." Vladimir Nabokov, ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach English-language learners? This series is part of a longer series of questions and ...

In this episode we will learn about sentence types: simple, complex, compound and compound-complex; and how to use them in your writing. Examiners will look at the range of sentence types you use in ...

Understand why we need to put stress on particular words and syllables. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons. Sentence stress and word stress give ...