This morning I got a phone call from a friend. He was crafting (= writing) a business email to a friendly organization in Argentina that he needed an answer from. My friend wasn’t sure whether the sentence he had written was correct. Here is the sentence: Just a gentle reminder to ask you when can… Continue reading Word Order of Subject and Verb
By Jacqueline Schaalje One thing that will make your writing much better is to vary the sentence type. It doesn’t matter what kind of text you’re writing: it can be a story, an essay or a report. For whatever text you write, you can be sure that people will get bored when the sentences all… Continue reading Quick Tip How to Get Better Writing: Use Different Sentence Types
A Sentence for Every Occasion By Jacqueline Schaalje Warning: This is a lesson at Expert level. If you’re a beginner, read only the first part in this article about simple sentences, and then do something else. In this article you’ll learn how to write and recognize simple sentences, then compound sentences, and finally complex sentences. As… Continue reading Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
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