In his book How to Write a Sentence, Stanley Fish praises this opening line, from a student’s essay: I was already on the second floor when I heard about the box. On its own, “the box” is a ...

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Sponsor Message I asked her to show me, and for an example she used the first sentence she recalls diagramming: "The dog barked." "By drawing a line and writing 'dog' on the left side of the line ...

You can diagram sentences from now to Tuesday and it really isn’t going to inform composing. Children should learn [the parts of speech], but they should learn them embedded in writing instruction.

Perhaps business writers of old could get away with writing 60-word sentences, but for today’s readers, poor sentences are bad for business. By some estimates, bad writing costs up to $400 ...

Many would simply write a sentence or two and shut the test booklet. In the spring of 2007, when administrators calculated graduation rates, they found that four out of 10 students who had started ...

they need to learn to write a decent sentence — no matter what grade they’re in. That doesn't mean teachers should drill students on grammar rules, an approach that research has shown doesn't ...

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 ...

I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times ... material by mimicking the famous opening line of “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen ...

providing targeted lessons on problems that students immediately apply to their own writing, and having students play with sentences like Legos, combining basic sentences into more complex ones.