I have often reflected on the problematic vagueness of the initial absolute adjunct clause of the Second Amendment. Reading about yet another university massacre last week, the topic came to mind ...

Its main clause, “Wilson became,” is boring compared with other stuff going on here. The stuff in the subordinate clause — the part that begins with the subordinating conjunction “when ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

Nonessential words and phrases are elements of a sentence which do not contain information essential to the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Jan, the second of three children, always feels left out ...