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 ...
It’s long past time to have a look at that verbs entry in the AP Stylebook, because, and I say this out of a spirit of concern and disinterested helpfulness, it can’t stand up to examination. The ...
As in the case of the noun, we adopt the hypothesis that all grammatical features originate here as a bundle of features together with the verb stem. How the grammatical features end up in the feature ...