Tag: English Grammar

Regarding English grammar, would you be well advised to “do as you please,” per the suggestion at left? The fact that we have adopted words and phrases from other languages doesn’t mean that butchering the English language comes without a …

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A reader asks: I learned almost all the grammar I still know from Latin, French and German where these constructions had to be more explicitly explained: Declension and conjugation from Latin, subjunctives from German, etc. My question is, am I …

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