Watch out! Thundergoats are dropping in and making sentences with their magic hammers. Your task? Make the sentences more interesting using adverbs and adverbial phrases.

Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...

MODIFIERS give us information about a noun or pronoun in a sentence. They are important because they help to paint the true picture of the information we seek to convey to our reader or listener. The ...

Prepositions are short words and phrases that give information about place, time and manner, eg: 'on', 'under', 'near', 'below', 'by', 'at', 'in' You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together ...

How can you begin to improve upon the rough first draft of a letter or a report that obviously needs additional work? My August column offered one answer: review and apply four rhetorical forms that ...

If anyone has ever scolded you for responding "I'm good" to "how are you?" — they're wrong. The myth — that you should really say "I'm well" — relies on the idea that modifying a verb requires an ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

Grammar expert and enthusiast June Casagrande dives into the world of hyphens and how to actually use them in writing.