The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

In the first two parts of this discussion, I rectified the contention of a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Mwita Chacha, that the two grammatical elements linked by a correlative conjunction ...

Is it correct to start a sentence with a conjunction? Here is a query from a reader of this column. Sanjay Saralaya writes, “Can one start a sentence with words and phrases such as as, because and due ...

I’d like to take this opportunity to rectify some myths about the usage of correlative conjunctions and appositives. I’m doing so in response to this combative reaction of Mwita Chacha, a ...