In a recent essay in The Guardian about whether America can ever recover from what happened after 9/11, the American feature writer Gary Younge says: An effective response to 9/11 that would have ...

Grammar books, and hundreds of websites out there, are appallingly confused about statements, questions, orders, and exclamations. Most of the problem lies in their failure to distinguish syntax from ...

Inversion is a sentence pattern that purposively disrupts the usual declarative form to achieve emphasis and better sentence transitions. It puts a prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, adjectival ...

There is a centuries old tradition of using needle and thread to make statements. Painting was for cathedrals, sculpture was for plazas, but embroidery was usually the only art in people's homes. For ...

John Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor and full-throated Mitt Romney surrogate for many months now, offered a strong defense of the former Massachusetts governor's Boston campaign team in an ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...

Looking to a maestro on the mound to improve your writing game. By Will Harrison Socked in during Covid lockdown, I became increasingly obsessed with archival footage of “actual human life,” so I ...