This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Nominalizations are nouns that are created from adjectives (words that describe nouns) or verbs (action words). For example, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Not long ago while editing a series of articles, I noticed that the writer had strange ideas about where to put adverbs. Many were placed before the verbs and some before the subjects, too. “He ...
A good few years back the old Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, carried out research into the mistakes most commonly made by learners in their written Irish. The ...
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How to write clearer, more forceful sentences
In the previous chapters we discussed two basic rules for parallel construction, namely: a sentence that presents two or more serial elements should stick to the same pattern all throughout; and that ...
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