First-time filmmaker Rudy Valdez got extremely personal for his debut documentary, The Sentence. Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture editor and writer ...

As professional rhetoricians, readers of this column should know what the most important part of a sentence is: the end. Many writers mistakenly think it’s the beginning: They begin a disproportionate ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

In 1973, Gabriel García Márquez, author of masterworks of magical realism such as One Hundred Years of Solitude, told The Atlantic, “In Mexico, surrealism runs through the streets. Surrealism comes ...

Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example. But sometimes studying the English sentence from a larger perspective is useful.

Home movies and mandatory minimums create a tale guaranteed to make you sob in Rudy Valdez's documentary, 'The Sentence.' By Daniel Fienberg Based on the 10 minutes of extended sniffling and even ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

Orwell advised cutting as many words as possible, Woolf found energy in verbs, and Baldwin aimed for ‘a sentence as clean as a bone’. What can we learn from celebrated authors about the art of writing ...

“The Big Lebowski” is an American movie that has developed a large following. Since its release in the late 1990s, the film has been shown at film festivals, colleges, and special events. Many college ...