Fiction writers can grab and hold their reader’s attention by creating tension. This can be done by selecting their words carefully and by how these words are used in sentences. Short sentences can ...

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 ...

I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently about where to put periods and commas relative to quotation marks. The notes were prompted by a recent column in which I mentioned that, in American English, a ...