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Is it Ever Okay to Use an Incomplete Sentence? Sure. In Certain Contexts.

In three of our recent articles, we looked at different kinds of incomplete sentences and ways to correct them. (Click…

A sentence can still be incomplete, even if it has a subject and a verb. In two of our previous…

Every sentence needs both a subject and a verb or else it isn’t a complete sentence. We have already looked…

At TextRanch, it happens every day… If we were to make a list of the most common writing mistakes that…

“Are you a real person or a robot?” At TextRanch, this question pops up on a regular basis. It usually…

Thank you is one of the most important polite phrases in the English language. We use it all the time with…

Incoming grammar lesson! Quite a few TextRanch users have wondered whether ‘abovementioned’ should be written as one word or if…

Almost everyone makes a bad purchase at some point. This unpleasant scenario has happened to just about all of us:…

News has spread throughout the office, and a valued coworker is planning to retire, switch to another company, or maybe…

In English grammar, redundancy is the concept of using more words than needed to describe the same idea. Some classic…