“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

Phrasal verbs are verbs that contain more than one word. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons. A ‘phrasal verb’ is a verb that has a base verb and one or ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The blog is on holiday until the start of October, when I’ll return with fresh material. For decades, ...