Sentences English important words is order of in the. or better: The order of words in English sentences is important. We need to get word order right in English. The arrangement makes all the difference. Get it wrong and it just ends up a mess which no one understands. But […]

A Dependent Clause (aka Subordinate Clause) is a clause that doesn’t make sense fully on its own and always needs an independent clause‏‎ to express a complete thought and make a complete sentence‏‎. These, for example, are dependent clauses: * whenever I see her * rather than take the bus […]

A Subordinate Clause (aka Dependent Clause) is a clause that doesn’t make sense fully on its own and always needs an independent clause‏‎ to express a complete thought and make a complete sentence‏‎. These, for example, are subordinate clauses: * whenever I see her * rather than take the bus […]

Subject-Verb Agreement means that a singular subject takes a singular verb‏‎ and a plural subject takes a plural verb. For example: My brother is in town. My brothers are in town. In the first example the subject is singular: my brother. This makes the verb singular: is. In the second […]

Here’s a simple statement: Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903. It follows the usual pattern of English statements of SVO‏‎: subject + verb + object Mary Anderson + invented + the windshield wiper. Often we ask questions‏‎ about the object of the statement. In this case we’d ask: […]