Once you have decided whether to write in the present tense or the past tense, you must remain consistent. You cannot shift tenses in the middle of a ...
You have already studied in Chapter Ten the four main verb forms. These verb forms are combined with helping verbs to create tenses other than the sim...
Verbs are one of the essential ingredients in the creation of sentences. Verbs tell the reader when something occurs through the use of tense. Tense i...
Adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases are all part of a group of words, clauses, and phrases that are modifiers. Modifiers describe nouns, pr...
Adjectives and adverbs are the words we use to describe. Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns and adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adve...
Parallelism is achieving balance in sentences. When you present similar points in a sentence, those points should have similar structure. This means t...
A sentence is defined as a group of words containing a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. If any of these elements is missing, then the group of...
As you learned in Chapter Two, sentence variety is crucial to good writing. Using nothing but short simple sentences makes writing seem choppy. You le...
So far you have studied how to put two sentences together by coordinating them, that is keeping them equal. Chapter Four explores subordination which ...
As your book tells you, if you put two independent clauses together without proper punctuation, you have made an error called a run-on sentence. Anoth...