Salley Vickers, Angelica Goodden, John Doherty, Eddy York and Barbara Benedict weigh in on an eternal linguistic debate Re David Roberts’ letter deploring your use of a split infinitive (29 June); ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do you know how to use as and as to make comparatives in English? Roy's going to inform us. Even though vs even if - English in a Minute Remember doing vs remember to do - English in a Minute Prevent ...
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