In the preceding six chapters, we reviewed the various types of parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the ...

Whenever you are re-structuring sentences, keep in mind that you have plenty of readily-available, effective tools to employ. A particularly useful one consists of four parts — they are the rhetorical ...

These are very common when speaking and they are not difficult to understand. One advantage of compound sentences is that a writer can build more detail into their writing. However, one problem is ...

Be careful though - if you only ever use simple sentences in your writing you don’t add much detail, so your reader could lose interest. Compound sentences have more than one verb and contain ...

We are concluding our discussion on phrases, clauses and sentences today. In the last two classes, we compared the three, underlining how a sentence is usually a combination of clauses and phrases.

Another issue that proves a sentence is ‘bigger’ than a clause is that it can contain two or more main clauses and at least a subordinate clause. This is called a compound-complex sentence ...