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 ...

Clare Leonard '08.5 may indeed be the only person under the age of 50 who enjoys enforces the split-infinitives "rule," but she writes, in her letter ("Poor writing can be found just about anywhere," ...

When you look up a verb in the dictionary what you find is the verb in the infinitive form. In English it’s two words - ‘to swim’ - but in German it’s just the one schwimmen. In German, there’s a ...