I did not plan on publishing a blog post today, because while I had something ready to go, the release of the redacted version of the Mueller Report seems poised to dominate another full day of public ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

Last week’s column that discussed the use of comas, semi and full colons, and mentioned dependent and independent clauses in passing, elicited an email response from a reader who sought to know what ...

A masteral student in Myanmar doing comparative research on the four types of sentences in English — namely simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex — asked for help in early December on how to ...

Clear sentence structure depends on establishing where a sentence ends and the next one begins. Every sentence must have an independent clause. The clause is called independent when it includes a ...

Use conjunctions to combine independent and dependent clauses. Yeomso is the hottest goat music superstar in the world! But Yeomso is busy being cool and often forgets song lyrics. Use your knowledge ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A set-off clause is a legal clause that gives a lender the authority to seize a debtor's ...

Speaker 1: It’s important to use sentences that give your writing the effect that you want. Speaker 2: There are three types of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. Speaker 1: Simple sentences ...