As an example of the passive voice I offer the following sentence: “The dog was hit by a car.” I then ask students to make it active: “A car hit the dog.” It is usually clear that the second sentence ...

I am looking forward to seeing you next week." And so I have to make sure that it's going to be grammatically correct. The first sentence has a verb and a subject and so the verb is 'want' and the ...

Semicolons can combine two complete sentences (without a conjunction) when the sentences are closely related and it would make sense to combine the sentences with "and." Example: The chapter ends as ...

Simple sentences are important for making clear points. Be careful though - if you only ever use simple sentences in your writing you don’t add much detail, so your reader could lose interest.

A proposal passed by Florida’s Legislature will require the death penalty for “unauthorized aliens” who commit a capital ...

The sentence in purple is an example of how to illustrate the signifiance of a passage. When citing from the text, you want to show what the passage illustrates and how it provides evidence for the ...