When you are writing, inverted commas or speech marks go before and after direct speech, surrounding what was said. Inverted commas make it clear when someone is speaking by sitting high up above the ...

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 can ...

ENGLISH has two emphatic tense forms that emphasize actions or states happening in the present and those that occurred in the past. Before discussing them, however, we must strongly keep in mind that ...