In this post, we’ll cover fronted adverbial and how it enhances our writing. What’s fronted adverbial? You might have read or written sentences like these. On Saturday, we’re going on a field trip. Because it was raining, I decided to…
Adverbials are an umbrella group of words, phrases, and clauses that function as an adverb in a sentence. And adjectivals are a similar umbrella group that function as an adjective in a sentence. The difference between the two is essentially…
Most of us have written sentences like these: I want the book on the upper shelf. Can you put the vase on the coffee table? The underlined parts – a prepositional phrase and a noun – are not identified as…
Most of us have written sentences like these: I live in Montreal. We’re going for a picnic next Saturday. The underlined parts – a prepositional phrase and a noun phrase – are not identified as adverbs like we do honestly,…
This post contains several examples of compound-complex sentences, including those where independent clauses have been joined by colon and semicolon. If you recall, a compound-complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. In practice,…
Some erroneously believe that a complex sentence can have only an adverb clause as the dependent clause. That’s not true. The dependent clause can be any of the three dependent clauses – noun, relative, or adverb. This post contains several…
This post contains fifteen exercises on sentence structure, asking you to identify simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Learn the four types of sentences in detail: The crux in identifying the four types of sentences is to spot dependent and…
In English, we categorize sentences into four types on the basis of their structure (number of dependent and independent clauses): simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Using different types of sentences adds variety to our writing, with the latter three combining…
In English, we categorize sentences into four types on the basis of their structure (number of dependent and independent clauses): simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Using different types of sentences adds variety to our writing, with the latter three combining…
In English, we categorize sentences into four types on the basis of their structure (number of dependent and independent clauses): simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Using different types of sentences adds variety to our writing, with the latter three combining…
This post contains several examples of compound sentences. If you recall, a compound sentence contains at least two independent clauses and no dependent clause whatsoever. But for a separate sub-category of three independent clauses, all compound sentences contain exactly two…
In English, we categorize sentences into four types on the basis of their structure (number of dependent and independent clauses): simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Using different types of sentences adds variety to our writing, with the latter three combining…