THERE are lots of assumptions that people have about English grammar. This has led to the postulating of many rules that are needless. In this column, I focus on helping to break some of those grammar ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...

TO better appreciate the value of free modifiers, particularly of the kind that works in the same league as resumptive modifiers and summative modifiers, we must first survey the entire universe of ...