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 ...

In the first two parts of this discussion, I rectified the contention of a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Mwita Chacha, that the two grammatical elements linked by a correlative conjunction ...

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 ...