(If you haven’t already, do the grammar lesson on coordinate conjunctions.) There are some conjunctions which are always used in pairs. For example: I have neither the time nor the money to help. The ...

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 ...

Examples of correlative conjunctions are: not only… but also, both… and, either… or, neither… nor, and whether… or.

It is possible to use negation in the verb and contrast it with the positive version of the correlative conjunctions. Example: ...

Notice that now we have the same grammatical structure on the right-hand side of the two correlative conjunctions. In the first example, following the not only we have "try to convince viewers that…".

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 ...

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 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 ...