Towards the end of a discourse that many people might have followed, on a local television station last Saturday, the anchor said; “Let’s put this matter to bed rest”. That takes us back to last ...

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 ...

The most common use of the perfect infinitive is to say ‘after having done’ something. Après avoir fait mes devoirs, j’ai regardé la télé. – After having done/After doing my homework, I watched TV.

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 ...

Have you the correct tense? Le Présent: Je donne = I give and I am giving Passé Composé: J'ai donné = I have given/I gave Le Futur Simple: Je donnerai = I will give L'Imparfait: Je donnais = I used to ...

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 ...