by Mignon Fogarty Today we turn to run-on sentences. I bet a lot of you think that run-on sentences are just really long sentences that go on and on like the Energizer bunny. But actually, run-on sentences are sentences that lack punctuation; they ca...
Grammar Girl here. Today, Julie Wildhaber, who trains writers and editors at Yahoo!, will explain a few strategies for keeping copy compact and for getting rid of deadwood: words and phrases that add length but not value. The podcast edition of this...
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to format questions. You think you already know this, don't you? I wonder if you're right. Everybody knows how write a plain vanilla question: What's new? They're called direct questions. But there are trickier...
Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the complex-compound sentence. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Most writers worth their fingertip calluses begin as avid readers. We read books, magazines, and websites indiscriminately until we start to notice the w...
1. I work in a post office. Are you a letter carrier? 2. Greg works in a bank. Is he a teller? 3. They live in Washington. Are they senators? 4. I eat breakfast at 8:00 a.m. What do you eat? 5. She goes to work at 9:00 a.m. Where does she work? 6. Ed...
Supplement: Some Useful Sentences on Transport Insurance 有关装运和保险的常用语句 (1) We have been put to considerable inconvenience by the long delay in delivery. We must insist on immediate delivery, otherwise we shall be compelled to c...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 25 June 2007 An Egyptian court has sentenced a nuclear engineer to life in prison for handing over nuclear secrets to Israel. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Cairo. Egyptian engineer Mohammed Sayyed Sabe...
