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NAIROBI: What the Bible or the Koran is to a preacher is what a dictionary is to a writer or a public speaker: they are indispensable implements. Since memories fade, one is forced to have something ...

When I get emails from native English speakers who have questions about grammar or usage, it makes me feel useful. They’re seeking the same type of information I’ve sought in the past, which means I’m ...

I just realized that yesterday I promised to talk about how prepositions get thrown into the mix. It's pretty easy really. Let's start out today's discussion with the difference between who and whom.

I continue to be amazed by the feedback I get from readers every time I write something about the use and abuse of the English language. On Christmas Day, I confessed my belief that few of you would ...

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PREPOSITIONS form a pretty exclusive club. Unlike nouns and verbs, of which there are squillions each, Wikipedia lists over a hundred modern one-word prepositions, a few two-word ("next to") and three ...

An email writer recently took me to task for my “atrocious” grammar. Later I learned that my specific transgression is the occasional use of a preposition at the end of a sentence. We are not born ...