Compound sentences have more than one verb and contain two or more clauses. The clauses in a compound sentence still make sense on their own and so we use coordinating conjunctions, such as 'and ...

Here is a query from a reader. Sanjay Saralaya writes: “Can one start a sentence with words and phrase such as ‘as’, ‘because’ and ‘due to’? Is it correct to sa ...

The rule, per Purdue OWL, is that you should not put a comma between the two verbs or verb phrases in a compound predicate. "John" is the subject of the sentence. "Ate a slice" and "drank a bottle ...

This time, we will see how parallelism can be pursued beyond the sentence level to make writing clearer and more forceful, ...

Run-on Sentences. A comma splice is the use of a comma, instead of a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon, between the two independent clauses of a compound sentence. If the comma is left out, a ...