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“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Recently, one such simple sentence revealed its extraordinary ...

Letters represent sounds. Words are built from letters. A group of words makes a phrase. Add a subject and verb, and you have a clause. If that clause expresses a complete thought, we call it a ...

Is it truly possible to condense the science of employee engagement into a single sentence? It is and I’m about to convince you of that. But first I need to explain why I’m taking this extreme ...

2. How I came to this conclusion. Marketing, reduced to its absolute basics, is remarkably simple: You figure out whom you want to sell to, and then you determine how you are going to get them to buy.

This is the Age of the One-Liner, whether we like it or not. It's almost the defining element of political discourse and political news today. In the media-saturated society we've created, getting ...

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 ...

Some short stories build to a single sentence. This is so common, actually, that it sometimes seems most of the stories I read are of this type. Readers are herded toward the shiny black nailhead of a ...