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 ...

Adding emphasis: 'what' cleft sentences. Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting ...

IN the previous two columns we took up the use of the passive voice and of cleft sentences to draw attention to a particular aspect of the sentence that we want to emphasize. We saw that these ...

Cleft sentences have generally been described as sentence patterns that overtly embody their discourse function. As the terminology suggests, cleft constructions are formed by dividing a more ...

Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting or important part. One way of giving ...