Now that you have freed prepositions to bravely be sentence endings, you might clarify Miss Thistlebottom’s split infinitive rule. — Pam Rider, East Village, San Diego Joining the preposition rule in ...

It is possible to use the structure verb + somebody + verb-ing: I can't imagine you living in a foreign country. I don't like you telling me what to do all the time. In the passive form, use being and ...

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 ...

Scholars believe concerning the infinitive with subject-accusative in Latin (1) that it originated in the type iube hunc abire, with the accusative as object of the verb and the infinitive a dative of ...

The imperative is a verb form that is used to give orders, instructions, advice, encouragement etc. It's formed by using the ...

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