Armstrong is expressing his desire to be among the saints going to heaven. The line “when the saints go marching in” is an adverb clause – sometimes called an “adverbial clause.” Adverb clauses are ...

'The Main Clause' explores how to identify the main clause in a sentence and how to use the main clause with confidence in sentence construction. Content includes: - Definition of the main clause with ...

A lesson looking at main clauses with year 1. Children were to look at the words on the board, do they make a main clause? What does a main clause need? For the activity two adult led groups are to ...

A few weeks ago, I taught two grammar seminars to aspiring novelists at the California Crime Writers Conference in Pasadena. The first session was all about the little stuff: lay and lie, commas, and ...

If you ever want to clear a room, a single word will usually do the trick: grammar. For anyone who had a hypercritical English teacher or a particularly persnickety aunt — and that’s a lot of us — the ...

We are concluding our discussion on phrases, clauses and sentences today. In the last two classes, we compared the three, underlining how a sentence is usually a combination of clauses and phrases. We ...

A conjunction is a word, or words, used to connect two clauses together. A subordinating conjunction is the word/words used to link two clauses together, a main clause and a subordinate clause. The ...