One of the most common questions I get is: Which is correct: X or Y? The X and Y don’t matter much. They change from email to email. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a Z or even an A, B and C. But the ...

Covid-19 statistics from our Health ministry are too depressing. Generally, the attitude of Kenyans towards the pandemic has been casual, but last week’s exponential rise in cases has compelled a ...

1. Only Rakesh broke the glasses yesterday. 2. Rakesh only broke the glasses yesterday. 3. Rakesh broke only the glasses yesterday. 4. Rakesh broke the glasses only yesterday. In the four sentences ...

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 ...

Use adverbs sparingly. At their best, they spice up a verb or adjective. At their worst, they express a meaning already contained in the sentence: The blast completely destroyed the church office. The ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

Recently, statistical bioinformatician Neil Saunders decided to look for sentence adverbs in close to 100,000 scientific abstracts. (You know sentence adverbs: “Remarkably, the guinea pigs were ...