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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 ...
As emphasized in the preceding chapter, the basic rule for parallel construction is to never mix grammatical forms when ...
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Today’s  topic is going to be a bit technical. Although it centres on three common grammatical elements, it involves some technicalities, the type we ...
The Tunisian News Agency reported that the sentences were issued following a trial involving 40 individuals, including prominent political figures. The court decisions, delivered early Saturday ...
Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was the subject of the hit podcast Serial, was officially freed from prison after a judge agreed to reduce his sentence to time served. A judge approved Syed ...
Though antiquated, similarly punctuated sentences appear throughout the ... though interrupted by a comma splitting the subject and predicate—explicitly and solely prohibits government ...
Turning to the Supreme Court, McDonald noted both of his predicate offenses from the '90s would no longer subject him to the Habitual Criminal Act if committed today. Ward argued the legislature had ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning ...
New York trial courts are sharply divided over whether a recent United States Supreme Court decision has had an impact on the manner in which predicate felony sentences may be imposed. In Erlinger ...
A schizophrenic man who stabbed his mother to death outside their family home after he had delusions that she was the leader of a war tribe has been handed a life sentence subject to a hospital order.