Author Archives: Connie Fisher

No one escapes high school English without being penalized for writing a sentence fragment here and there, and unfortunately not everyone remembers what they are and how to fix them. Simply put, a sentence fragment is a clause that falls short of true sentencehood because… continue reading

You probably already know that a noun is a word that denotes a person, place, thing, or idea—this is a concept we learn relatively early in school. Needless to say, there are several different types of nouns that we use to depict everything we experience… continue reading

An appositive is a noun or a noun phrase that is positioned next to another noun to rename or describe it in a different way. (The word appositive is from the Latin for to put near.) An appositive is usually offset with commas, parentheses (round… continue reading

What Are Adverbs? Adverbs are words that describe and/or modify a verb (he talks loudly), an adjective (very small), another adverb (ended too quickly), or even a whole sentence (Fortunately, I had brought an umbrella). Adverbs often end in -ly, but some (like fast) look… continue reading

Compound words sometimes don’t have the same meaning as the individual words they comprise. For example – anytime and any time,  It’s a situation where the whole is different from the total of its parts. Every day and everyday are similar—everyday (without a space) does… continue reading

Is it “into” or “in to?” This is actually a common error, although it really shouldn’t be. When choosing between the two, remember that into is a preposition that shows what something is within or inside. As separate words, in and to sometimes just simply end… continue reading