Even if you’ve made sure your writing is grammatically correct, there’s room to improve by structuring your sentences in more complex ways. Avoid short, repetitive sentences by learning how to connect ...

Dependent clauses are a group of words that contain a subject and a verb but do not express a complete thought. They’re also called subordinate clauses because they depend on independent clauses to ...

I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist Convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...