Prepositions and Conjunctions: The Parts of Speech That Decide a Sentence (2026)
The list of prepositions will not fix your prepositions. The 150-preposition video has a few thousand views, the in-or-on video 6.9 million. Here is why.
Essays, grammar rules, and writing mechanics.
The list of prepositions will not fix your prepositions. The 150-preposition video has a few thousand views, the in-or-on video 6.9 million. Here is why.
Deleting your em dashes will not make your writing look human, and it costs you a useful mark. What punctuation actually signals now, and what to use instead.
The AP English curriculum leaves these three Greek words out on purpose. What they mean, and what to write in a rhetorical analysis essay instead.
Paraphrasing means new words AND new sentence structure, then a citation. Examples of the line between paraphrase and plagiarism, and how to stay on the right side.
Five essay openings that work, with examples: the surprising fact, the question, the scene, the stake, the misconception. Get past the blank page.
A conclusion answers the question the reader is silently asking: so what? How to end an essay without repeating it, with before-and-after examples.
A rhetorical analysis explains how a text persuades, not whether you agree. The assignment decoded, with a full worked example from prompt to paragraph.
A topic sentence states the one point a paragraph will prove. What it is, where it goes, and examples that show the difference between a point and a fact.
A works cited page is the alphabetical MLA list of every source you used. Format rules, hanging indents, and worked entries for books, sites, and journals.
Transition words sorted by the job they do: addition, contrast, cause, sequence. Pick by function, not from a 200-word dump, and the logic holds.
A thesis statement is one sentence that says what your essay argues and why. Examples across essay types, plus the test that separates a real thesis from a fact.
An annotated bibliography is a source list where each entry gets a short paragraph. Here is the format, two full examples in APA and MLA, and the common mistakes.