Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don't really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence ...

Students pored over their own copies of the excerpt, heads bent, highlighting sentences in different colors to demarcate different parts of the paragraph structure—the thesis and supporting details.

But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children develop reading comprehension.

Tools like Grammarly can help fix grammatical mistakes as you type them, but if you’re curious about the structure of your sentence to begin with, FoxType can help.

In the original sentence, the subject was the pronoun “there.” Technically, this is called the “existential there,” which is just a structure we use to say something exists.