Last week, acting Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph made a remark during Bob Collymore’s memorial service that generated rancorous debate on social media. Inter alia, Joseph said: “Over the last 15 years I ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

In the previous chapters we discussed two basic rules for parallel construction, namely: a sentence that presents two or more serial elements should stick to the same pattern all throughout; and that ...

“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

Casagrande writes that using the correct adverb to modify a verb can often be a swing and miss — just like in baseball. I’m not a sports fan. I’ve been to exactly two baseball games in my life, ...