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 ...

I have on occasion split the infinitive and one should never do that. Yet it’s hard to remember what is so bad about splitting infinitives, except that it offends those people who had their grammar ...

prophets is spreading a sort of false gospel. doing harm, punishing people for trying to play by the rules. Take, for example, the teacher who, once upon a time, told one of this column’s readers a ...