We don’t need to play a gotcha game dressed up as a grammar rule. There are clearly dangling modifiers that would bother no ...
What is wrong with these sentences? Hopping briskly through the vegetable garden, John saw a toad. Gently warmed in the oven and smothered in cream cheese, my friends loved the bagels. To be really ...
Eg: (Only) Sheena gave me (only) Rs 5 (only) to clean the board (only). As seen in the above sentence the placement of ‘only’ at different places changes the meaning of the sentence. Hence, the ...
As the executive editor of Avenue Magazine, a luxury lifestyle publication based in New York City, I see the importance of proper grammar every day. But you don’t have to work in publishing to realize ...
In the business world, effective communication is paramount. However, even seasoned professionals can fall prey to common sentence errors that undermine their message and credibility. In this article, ...
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. We ...