I’m a sucker, a total sucker, for anything that attempts to explain the often wacky rules of our beautiful language in terms that every man jack can understand. The Language Corner is just such a thing.
Various rules of the language, including rules of thumb, are discussed here (with as little jargon as possible) because we need to know the rules to know when to follow them, when to bend them, even when to break them.
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