Yolande Clark-Jackson

"Historical photographs can be difficult sources. They rarely tell the whole story by themselves. Sometimes the names are missing. Sometimes the dates are uncertain. Sometimes a person appears in a collection because a clerk, donor, archivist, or family member made a decision decades ago that we can no longer fully trace."

The most common question I get from students and writers isn’t "What is a THAMO?" it’s "Where does the comma go?"

What is an appositive phrase? Here's the definition of an appositive phrase, and the best way to use and punctuate them as well as other nonessential phrases in a sentence.

Using quotations or "quotes" correctly can get confusing, especially when the rules on how and when to use them can change depending on...

Knowing how to identify participles, participial phrases and whether or not your participial is dangling or doing the the job it's...

There are a multitude of grammar rules and many have exceptions, but there are ten basic rules you definitely need to know that can make a big difference. Grammar Tip Tuesday Essential Punctuation Rules for Good Grammar Periods always go inside quotation marks. This rule doesn’t apply to all other forms of punctuation. Use a hyphen in compound adjectives that come before nouns. For example, write, “A ten-year-old girl won the prize” or “The girl who won was ten years old.”

There are plenty of acronyms in the English language, and when I began teaching grammar and writing to college students, I also had to teach them about the common acronyms used in grammar, especially if I wanted them to use more complex sentences. SWABI in English grammar are types of conjunctions that help you correctly vary the types of sentences you use in your writing. What is SWABI in English grammar? SWABI is an acronym for so, when, after, because, and if (words that

#grammartiptuesday #grammar #education #writers You may have heard that active voice will make your writing more clear and less clunky,...

What are Correlative Conjunctions? There are three types of conjunctions used to join words and groups of words in a sentence:...

You have probably been told at one point in your writing life some hard and fast rules about grammar. One popular rule handed down...

This is the most comprehensive explanation of coordinating conjunctions: THAMOs FANBOYs and SWABi