It’s an example of a sentence with all of the right ingredients ... This clip is suitable for teaching English at Key Stage 3 or Third Level.

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

The English language is a strange and wonderful thing, but every so often, someone manages to string together a sentence so bizarre, so completely unhinged, that it feels like a historic moment. These ...

Subordinate clauses are sometimes known as 'dependent clauses' because they need the main part of the sentence to make sense. They don’t make complete sense on their own. For example ...

A run‐on sentence is two or more independent clauses joined together with insufficient punctuation. This means that there are two or more complete sentences fused into one sentence. Use a colon: a ...