In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. When students can’t understand what they’re reading, it may be because ...

Sentences that snatch our readers’ attention get positive results. Whether you’re back working in the office or still in your jim-jams, no one has the time or inclination to slog through a convoluted ...

In the previous chapters we discussed two basic rules for parallel construction, namely: a sentence that presents two or more serial elements should stick to the same pattern all throughout; and that ...

Oh, cut that out! Quieten down! Command sentences give instructions and tell someone to do something. They use imperative or bossy verbs, like 'jog on the spot'. If you put a bossy verb at the ...

Well, here you are, looking at this, trying, hoping, floundering, scrabbling, wishing, dying to find out the mystery of “how to” write a sentence. Or possibly you have tried write sentence and failed ...