It is not just grammatical accuracy that makes a piece of writing good. There are many other characteristics such as organization, coherence, diction, grammar and style that constitute a good piece of ...

In English grammar, the concept of parallelism demands that there must be a balance in the structures of the words, phrases or clauses we use in a sentence. Such balance ensures clarity, fluidity in ...

Today’s topic is going to be a bit technical. Although it centres on three common grammatical elements, it involves some technicalities, the type we usually want to as much as possible play down in ...

IN the first five parts of this series, we reviewed the various ways of achieving parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the same function words can match and balance the clauses ...

A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example: I won’t ...

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A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example: I won’t ...