Conciseness is a major attribute of a good sentence. Every teacher stresses the need to construct concise and sharp clauses or sentences. The principle demands you deploy as fewer words as possible to ...

Adding emphasis: 'what' cleft sentences. Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting ...

IN the previous two columns we took up the use of the passive voice and of cleft sentences to draw attention to a particular aspect of the sentence that we want to emphasize. We saw that these ...

THERE are times when we just feel that even the passive voice falls short of giving us the desired emphasis for what we want to say. That's when we take recourse to a peculiar grammar device that we ...

Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting or important part. One way of giving ...