One aspect of English grammar that I don’t remember having discussed fully in this column yet is the conditional sentence, which conveys the idea that the action in the main clause can take place only ...

A friend of mine brought to my notice an error in the structure of a sentence in my letter that was published in a newspaper. Here is the sentence: If only the world ...

Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...

One of the things we should avoid as a communicator is to get an unsavory reputation for declaring everything we say as absolute truth. To be a credible, we need a well-developed capacity to ...