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 ...
DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student papers to grade and critique, I address your recent U-T column. I so enjoy, appreciate, and support your language ...
prophets is spreading a sort of false gospel. doing harm, punishing people for trying to play by the rules. Take, for example, the teacher who, once upon a time, told one of this column’s readers a ...