Covid-19 statistics from our Health ministry are too depressing. Generally, the attitude of Kenyans towards the pandemic has been casual, but last week’s exponential rise in cases has compelled ...

Not every language authority agrees with me on this mild approval of however to start a sentence. “Strunk and White discourage the use of however as a conjunctive adverb at the beginning of a ...

Because it’s not modifying the verb, it’s not tethered to any particular word in the sentence. So where do you put an adverb that’s modifying a whole sentence? Wherever it sounds best.

Use adverbs sparingly. At their best, they spice up a verb or adjective. At their worst, they express a meaning already contained in the sentence: The blast completely destroyed the church office ...

Learn and revise sentence types and clauses, nouns, adjectives and verbs with this BBC Bitesize GCSE English Language (Eduqas) study guide.

The reason some teachers believe that because cannot start a sentence is that it often introduces subordinate clauses that depend on main clauses in sentences and some learners write in fragments ...

We are talking about the use of the word "so" as a verbal tic… often at the beginning of sentences and sometimes even at the end. In this segment, we take a look at why it seems we are now using ...

Your goal in any job interview is to get your candidates talking so much that they reveal what they’re truly like behind their interview persona. And this one sentence will help you do that.

However, the way the adverb was mischievously used in the second sentence of this column ("let's so hear it") is still frowned upon except in extremely casual use.

Adverbs like ‘too’ can be used at the start, middle or end of a sentence; For example, “Too tired to cook, John chose to go to bed hungry”, “John was too tired to cook, so he went to bed ...