Learn about simple, compound and complex sentences, and writing in more detail. What are paragraphs? A number of sentences grouped together are called a paragraph. They are usually about one idea ...

A 30-year-old man from Fitchburg was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for making and passing counterfeit ... In addition to the 4-year prison sentence for the current offense ...

Simple sentences are important for making clear points. 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.