Modifiers are describing phrases or clauses which support or tell more about your idea. Therefore, they have to be placed next to what they modify. Misplaced Modifers: Dangling modifiers are those ...

Our word “sentence” comes from the Latin word for “opinion.” In late 14th-century Middle English, Chaucer describes a theology student at Oxford as “full of high sentence,” that is, full of solemn ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

The theory of grammar adopted here is that grammar is linked to the semantic notion of conceptual which includes proposition structure. A proposition is that part of a sentence less its modal ...

The début of our new series on language in all its facets: grammar, syntax, vocabulary, spelling, usage, and punctuation. In this episode, Mary Norris talks about commas. at the New Yorker, sometimes ...