Today, I want to begin by asking you to listen to two sentences and compare their meanings. Are the meanings the same or different? Here are the sentences: Sammy ate the pizza. It was Sammy who ate ...

Conciseness is a major attribute of a good sentence. Every teacher stresses the need to construct concise and sharp clauses or sentences. The principle demands you deploy as fewer words as possible to ...

Everything we write or say has a point - we say it in a particular context for a particular reason. One of the things that we all had to learn was when, and how, to make the point crystal clear.

THERE are times when we just feel that even the passive voice falls short of giving us the desired emphasis for what we want to say. That's when we take recourse to a peculiar grammar device that we ...

FOR those times when even the passive voice falls short of giving us the desired emphasis for a statement, the English language allows recourse to a construction known as the cleft sentence, which ...

What is a cleft sentence and how do we use it? Cleft sentences are used to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say by introducing it or building up to ...

Cleft sentences are used to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say by introducing it or building up to it with a kind of relative clause. Because there ...