When you look up a verb in the dictionary you find the infinitive form. In English it’s made up of two words: to swim. But in French it’s just one, nager. And if you want to say something more ...
Reader Don in Los Angeles County wrote recently with a question about a well-known grammar issue called a “split infinitive.” “I learned about them 50 years ago and I am somewhat sensitive about them ...
If you want to help another person — say, your employee — with his writing, there are several approaches you could take. You might look at the big picture: How well are the ideas organized and ...
TWO important grammatical forms that I don’t recall having ever taken up in this column are the perfect infinitive and the perfect gerund. I was asked about their usage sometime in 2011 but having ...
I don't think there was ever anything objectively wrong with splitting infinitives. I think it arose when prescriptive grammarians laid down that as the Latin infinitive, being one word, is ...
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