Sentence Structure

Musings and Verb Tenses

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On a day like today, I celebrate working from home. Through the large, picture window to my left I watch the intermittent rain spitting from the soft, gray blanket that’s hiding the sun. Behind me to my right, bird song lilts through open windows in the living room. This day looks like a dreary October … Read more

Either-Or, a Correlative Conjunction

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  Either or Correlative conjunctions are used in pairs. They join two parts of the sentence that depend on each other to form a complete thought. Today the spotlight is on one specific pair, either-or. As a correlative conjunction, either-or must connect matching sentence parts. If either is followed by an adjective and a noun, … Read more