Cinda Ackerman Klickna taught English in Springfield, Ill., and served on the NEA Board of Directors and as president of the Illinois Education Association. She authored the children’s book, Out of ...

English grammar, particularly the rules for how to punctuate sentences correctly, can refer to unfamiliar or very specific terms. Some of these traditional terms are explained below. The verb says ...

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 ...

As a teacher, identifying parts of speech can seem like a daunting task. Yet, teaching or reviewing the concept of linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns is important in order to ...

Grammar—all those rules and structures that govern written and spoken language—might seem to some like a tedious affair. But the truth is that without some rules in place to follow, we would probably ...