We are concluding our discussion on phrases, clauses and sentences today. In the last two classes, we compared the three, underlining how a sentence is usually a combination of clauses and phrases. We ...

The mark of fluent English-language writers or speakers is the way they effortlessly do away with words mandated by formal grammar, but which only impede the quick delivery of their ideas. Nonnative ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...