The Thinking Behind Grammar and Style
Does Trouble Lay Ahead?
Does trouble lay what ahead? That, oddly, would be the right reply to this title question, which I happened to read recently in the news online. The almost traditional difficulty writers seem to have distinguishing between the verbs lay and lie offers steady employment to those watching over the rules of English grammar. It’s possible,…
Ruminative Reading
Keeping a commonplace book makes up part of what we can call our private reading, and private reading is so called because it refers to what we read to take care of ourselves—not our work, not someone else’s profits, but our own good wellbeing. Private, though, has many notes and it can mean many things.…
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