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It has been called the new "um" or "like," but linguist Geoff Nunberg says starting sentences with "so" isn't a new trend. People have been doing it for years. We're just noticing it more now.
Light sentences can impact the way the public views sexual assault cases, experts say.
Economic Policy Google’s new artificial intelligence can’t understand these sentences. Can you? May 18, 2016 More than 9 years ago Summary By Jeff Guo ...
So do sentences that start with "So do." Not every relative pronoun will work at the start of a sentence: You likely won't be able to get away with something like "He asked about the pocket watch.
The book-length sentence is a literary genre in itself, though one few writers have had the nerve to tackle.
“Your sentences are so long,” said a friend who teaches English at a local college, and I could tell she didn’t quite mean it as a compliment. The copy editor who painstakingly went through ...
So let's start with the basics. "It's a fairly simple idea," says Kitty Burns Florey, the author of Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences.
Opinion: These sentences from the international Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest and The Morning Call's similar contest are so bad, they're good ...
So, we’ll get back to that sentence soon! But before we do, I want you and everyone else reading this to realize how difficult it was for me to type that out.
IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it ...
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Reality TV star Julie Chrisley's sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion was thrown out Friday by federal appeals judges, who ordered a lower court to redo her punishment over what the appellate ...