In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

The writer's basic tool is the sentence. But it, in turn, rests on an even more fundamental unit. Noam Chomsky, the linguist known for his "transformational grammar," argued that "the basic statement" ...