Use question words, such as ‘How much is …?’. Use a declarative sentence, such as ‘I would like … please’. Invert, or swap the order of, the verb and the subject to form a question ...

To reinforce this, I sometimes use this little undergraduate exercise: Find plausible example sentences to fill all the cells of the matrix below. I omit exclamatives because they are less ...

Ernest Hemingway was the master of the simple, declarative sentence during his time. By contrast, when Saul Bellow came along, he wrote descriptive sentences full of verbal energy. "This was a ...