Sentences.
Grammar is a way of describing how words are combined to form sentences. SENTENCE: Martin Like Football. | | | WORD WORD WORD Each of the words in that sentence…
Grammar is a way of describing how words are combined to form sentences. SENTENCE: Martin Like Football. | | | WORD WORD WORD Each of the words in that sentence…
Putting words into classes like this tells us a lot about how words are used, but it doesn’t tell us much about how sentences are constructed. To do that we…
For this purpose an A-Z arrangement is the most suitable. The problem with grammar, however, is that in order to understand one term, you usually need to know what one…
Consider these two sentences: X. Keep straight on, swerving neither left or right. X. An assistant commissioner said they could neither vouch for the truth nor accuracy of the reports.…
In writing especially, not . . . because can give rise to serious ambiguities. Consider these sentences: I didn’t go because I was ill. I didn’t go, because I was…
Many adverbs do not end in -ly. Examples include always, soon, today, ever, yet, away, here, so, too. One unusual adverb is hard, as in They fought hard. It contrasts…
In the use of only, natural idiom is often at odds with logical word order. It is quite natural to say John only gave his sister 5 dollars. But purists…
If elements in a sentence are proposed as parallel in kind, they should be presented as parallel in structure. The following sentence fails to meet this simple requirement: X. She…