As an example of the passive voice I offer the following sentence: “The dog was hit by a car.” I then ask students to make it active: “A car hit the dog.” It is usually clear that the second sentence ...

Semicolons can combine two complete sentences (without a conjunction) when the sentences are closely related and it would make sense to combine the sentences with "and." Example: The chapter ends as ...

yet such sentences as make the taste of sweet earth and fresh air--things that seem ordinarily without an odor or at all attractive to the tongue--as desirable as wine to sip or lip to kiss or bloom ...

I am looking forward to seeing you next week." And so I have to make sure that it's going to be grammatically correct. The first sentence has a verb and a subject and so the verb is 'want' and the ...

‘He walked quickly back to the house.’ Simple sentences are important for making clear points. They are also useful for creating tension when writing fiction. However, if you only ever use ...