Sentences

Fronting & Topicalisation

Three sentences in a row starting with 'I' — how fronting fixes that clunky monotone

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Fronting & Topicalisation

Every sentence starts I like, I did, we went — learn to flip the order for punch

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Sentence Fragments

'This isn't quite a sentence,' says the red pen — when fragments are broken and when they're deliberate

Roger Fielding 9 min read Sentences

Sentence Fragments

Get a 'frag' scrawled on your essay? Learn to spot sentence fragments and fix them fast

Roger Fielding 4 min read Sentences

Run-Ons & Comma Splices

A Friday email that starts calm and ends in a comma-spliced blur — three fixes for the joint

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Run-Ons & Comma Splices

Written a run-on sentence without noticing? Learn four ways to split it and tidy it up

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Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers

Re-reading a 4:55 email, you spot a modifier dangling off the wrong noun entirely — here's the fix

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Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers

Read back your story and gone cold? Learn to catch modifiers that grab the wrong word

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Faulty Parallelism

Attention to detail, communicating clearly, and that you are... — when a list stops matching itself

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Faulty Parallelism

Reading, to play football, and... sound familiar? Learn to make your lists match and flow

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Parallelism & Balance

One sentence, three mismatched verb forms — the balance trick that makes any list sound like one piece

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Parallelism & Balance

Sentence sounds off but not wrong? Learn to balance verbs and phrases so it reads smoothly

Roger Fielding 4 min read