Category: English Editing

There is a limit to the meaning you can express with the conjunction and. If someone says She has not…

Multiple sentences are made by combining clauses. The simplest way of doing this is to use the grammatical equivalent of…

If a sentence consists of one clause it is described as a simple sentence. Each of the following is a…

More often an adverbial is not essential to the grammar of the clause it is in. In each case of…

There remains one clause component that is much less straightforward: adverbials. These are words or phrases that answer question such…

Subject+verb+object+complement. It is also possible to have part of a clause that completes the object: SUBJECT VERB OBJECT COMPLEMENT The…

Subject+verb+object. If there is an object, it normally follows the verb. It refers to a different person or thing from…

Subject+verb+complement. A small number of verbs are followed not by an object, but by a complement. The commonest of these…