When a student writes "I am frustrating with that class," we recognize it as an error, but the error is not one that makes the writing unintelligible. The message ...
I want to follow up on the topic of language evolution that I took up in my previous newsletter about how the word “satisfying” has taken on a new meaning among many of today’s kids. The bigger theme ...
There are two main classes of verbs in English: strong and weak. 'Strong' is a historical terms that refers to the of verbs in which the past tense is marked by a change in the base vowel and the ...
'I let Roger drive the car whenever he wants to.' 'I let Roger drive because I wasn’t feeling very well.' 'If you hadn’t let him use your credit card, you wouldn’t now be overdrawn.' 'I always cut my ...