Actor George Takei, who played the helmsman of the USS Enterprise on "Star Trek," recently posted the above image that depicts a strange example of a perfectly logical English sentence. It contains ...

Speaker 1: It’s important to use sentences that give your writing the effect that you want. Speaker 2: There are three types of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. Speaker 1: Simple sentences ...

Some short stories build to a single sentence. This is so common, actually, that it sometimes seems most of the stories I read are of this type. Readers are herded toward the shiny black nailhead of a ...

In Albert Camus’ The Plague (1947), an epidemic spreads across Oran, a town on Africa’s north coast, as Joseph Grand attempts to write a novel. Grand dreams of writing a book that will cause his ...