Here’s a question one can ask at the border of grammar and logic: Reading the sentence Paul’s sister Maureen is a physician, can we know whether Paul has more than one sister? The question involves how the sentence is punctuated, and is part of a department of grammar called apposition. Some earlier posts here (Apposition, …
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Apposition
When I was in grade school, English class became the Language Arts. None of us really knew why, but many of our parents weren’t happy: just get on with teaching them the basics, they said, so they will know how to read and write. The change, though, may have harbored a defensible reason, and one …