One of the enemies of effective communication is the run-on sentence. Like ambiguity and dangling modifiers, it hampers understanding and makes speech and writing ugly. You should, therefore, beware ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...

The Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next term’s Barrett ...

Do you ever get confused between “lie” and “lay,” particularly in the past tense? How about the proper time to use “who” and “whom”? Does trying to explain past participles make your brain cells go on ...

The relative pronoun, ‘who’, is used to connect these clauses in the sentence. Relative clauses can be used to create complex sentences as they are a type of subordinate clause. A subordinate ...

Tina Peters showed no remorse, despite no evidence being found on the hard drive to support her conspiracy, and her legal defense was paltry.” — ...

(Correct) In the last sentence, ‘other things being equal ... When ‘although’ begins a subordinate clause, we use a comma to separate the clause from the main one that follows it.

The stay halts Richard Emery's execution, scheduled for April 2, pending the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on a writ of ...

One of the pleasures of writing is being able to share not only information and ideas, but also one's feelings. But those are ...

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and sentence of former Reagor-Dykes CEO Bart Reagor, who was found guilty in a fraud and theft case.