The five patterns illustrated below provide the basis for all other sentence structures: that is, other kinds of sentences are transformations of these basic patterns. Though the above sentences are ...

We investigate the development of word order in German children's spontaneous production of complement clauses. From soon after their second birthday, young German children use both verb-final ...

“I’ll dress warm,” I wrote to friends recently in a group email about a get-together on the patio of a local café. What happened next will sound familiar to every careful user of the English language: ...

朱湘军，暨南大学外国语学院副教授，研究方向翻译理论与实践。本课程将英语语法与写作相结合，通过句子合并学习语法规则，通过规则讲解提高句子写作。每章包括语法和写作两部分。语法部分系统讲述了句子成分、短语、从句和句子等重要语法点的功能 ...

Gerunds, essential parts of the English language, look like verbs but are actually nouns. You’ve likely encountered them in writing without identifying them, because they straddle the division between ...

Grammatical errors and poor sentence structure can tear your writing apart. You’ll only need a subject and predicate to form a complete sentence but adding other parts to your sentence can give it ...