Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

A sentence is a group of words that include a subject and verb, and usually expresses one complete thought. ‘Selena lives on the new space station’ is an example of a sentence. Sentences are made up ...

A conjunction is a word, or words, used to connect two clauses together. Words such as 'although', 'because' or 'when' . A subordinating clause is a part of a sentence that adds additional information ...

Have you ever read a sentence that just didn’t work but you couldn’t put your finger on what was wrong? Have you ever written one? Reader-unfriendly sentences are everywhere. Many you can fix just by ...

Grammar columnist and expert June Casagrande dives into why we use the em dash and the AI myths associated with it.

Today’s topic is going to be a bit technical. Although it centres on three common grammatical elements, it involves some technicalities, the type we usually want to as much as possible play down in ...