The way in which you put sentences together really changes the meaning and how clear and good your writing or speaking is.

Conjunctions join together two different, but related, parts of a sentence. They can be words like 'and', 'but', 'if', 'when', and 'because'. For example: I like swimming and she likes dancing.

Use brackets sparingly. They are fine for adding technical details of trial results, but avoid them if you can for subclauses in sentences. They can be confusing, particularly for people using ...

Punctuation is very important in our writing. Without it, writing would just be a mess of letters and words and we wouldn’t be able to breathe when reading! Full stops are needed at the end of most ...