So we've done participles and gerunds, and because @glamAtude asked whether we could talk about appositives, here we go: An appositive is a word or phrase that follows a noun and gives more ...

Several years back, I was roundly criticized for using the one-word “sometime” and the restrictive noun phrase “my wife Leonor” in this lead sentence of a column of mine: “Sometime ago, my wife Leonor ...

TO establish context or give texture to a main clause, we typically use a phrase to modify it. This modifying phrase commonly takes one of these five forms — a prepositional phrase, appositive phrase, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Commas are wonderful tools. They tell a reader to pause, as this one did. They can also tell a reader that some information ...