Carroll County’s English teachers are dusting off their grammar books as part of the school system’s effort to bolster students’ writing and reading skills. For nearly four decades, grammar ...

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Adding emphasis: 'what' cleft sentences. Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting ...

IN the previous two columns we took up the use of the passive voice and of cleft sentences to draw attention to a particular aspect of the sentence that we want to emphasize. We saw that these ...