NARRATOR: Good choice, my gassy friend. We could join those ideas or clauses with "because." The train stopped because the cart broke. Now we have one longer sentence. Err, hang on a minute. You could ...
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 ...
Two weeks ago, Forum member Justine A. asked two very interesting grammar questions but it was only last Monday that I found time to thoroughly analyze them and write this column. The first question ...