The year is 1921. Louisiana lawmakers ban French in classrooms, silencing the language for generations of families. Decades later, along comes Mavis Arnaud Fruge on a mission to revive the ...

A simple sentence is built from the minimum of a subject and a main verb. It can be very short in length (but doesn't have to be): 'The angry dog barks.' It puts across one simple idea ...

Simple sentences can also contain a compound subject or a compound verb. Because these sentences still contain only one independent clause (as opposed to two or more independent clauses and/or an ...