Casagrande writes that using the correct adverb to modify a verb can often be a swing and miss — just like in baseball.

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the ...

Get children adding a bit of grammatical spice to their sentences with these teaching tips and KS2 adverbials resources from Laura Dobson… Adverbials are the herbs and spices in a grammatical meal.

German intelligence chief Bruno Kahl says that Moscow's acts of sabotage against Western targets could spur NATO to invoke Article 5 defence clause. Russia's hybrid warfare tactics against the West ...

IN the past six columns on crafting more readable sentences, we have focused on ways to make our English clearer, more concise, and more forceful. We have seen how reference words, adjective phrases, ...

1 Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States 2 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States ...