I'm writing some material about transitions for the Intensive Editing Workshop I'm teaching at UCLA in January, and it reminded me about the mythical "rule" saying that you can't start sentences with ...

The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

Even if you’ve made sure your writing is grammatically correct, there’s room to improve by structuring your sentences in more complex ways. Avoid short, repetitive sentences by learning how to connect ...

INFOTEMANGGUNG.COM - Dear friends, in your opinion, do conjunctions and transitions help you create sentences with complex ideas compared to just using simple sentences? Why? To answer question In ...

I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist Convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...

I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...

SPEAKER 1: Sometimes in your writing, you need to link ideas. SPEAKER 2: Because they are related. SPEAKER 1: Good example. ‘Because’ is a conjunction. SPEAKER 2: Conjunctions are linking words.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. I've never been to a "con." What I mean by this, of course, is a major "convention" (unless you count the Southern Baptist convention back in 2004, but ...