The direct object in our sample sentence “Matt eats pizza” is pizza. Matt eats what? Pizza. An indirect object tells us to whom or for whom an action is done. To understand this concept, we need to ...

You may not be able to master Chinese without some serious studying, but you can learn a few basic words and phrases. People in China and Taiwan tend to be warm towards visitors; they know the ...

eg the phrase ‘pet Siamese cat’ would be replaced by the single word ‘cat’ and still have the same basic meaning. We use phrases to add more detail to our writing.

MY column last week ("When even the passive voice isn't enough," EPS 2238) further emphasized that our writing shouldn't ...