Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes about Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark Roy Peter Clark, a writing guru at the Poynter Institute, writes this week about a grammar subject near and dear to my heart: the ...
Olly Jezek from the Czech Republic writes: Please could you explain how to use the subjunctive? E.g.: ‘It’s important that the lesson be funny.’ When should we use ‘be’ and why? Maria Goranova from ...
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The mood and attitude of English verbs
The subjunctive actually acts in several other baffling ways in addition to this deviant behavior, thus making its usage even more confusing to many people. To increase our confidence in using the ...
READING a story on the fate of European newspapers, your columnist was drowning in bad news—newsrooms decimated, advertisers fleeing—but then a strange sentence appeared: Even Rupert Murdoch, who ...
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