As candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) prepare for the big challenge they will be facing in the next few days (from April 19), I hereby call their attention to an ...

I’d like to take this opportunity to rectify some myths about the usage of correlative conjunctions and appositives. I’m doing so in response to this combative reaction of Mwita Chacha, a ...

The landlord refused to respond to inquiries. Because he said he needed to talk to his lawyer. When told the phrase beginning with “Because” was a sentence fragment, the student objected: But you said ...

Here is a query from a reader. Sanjay Saralaya writes: “Can one start a sentence with words and phrase such as ‘as’, ‘because’ and ‘due to’? Is it correct to say ‘As I was unwell, I could not attend ...

Is it correct to start a sentence with a conjunction? Here is a query from a reader of this column. Sanjay Saralaya writes, “Can one start a sentence with words and phrases such as as, because and due ...

The latest fashion in Wordland is to remove the glue that holds sentences together. The conjunction, that mainstay of English grammar, gets little respect. People are using the construction "not only ...