Often we hear people with two children describe one as the oldest and the other as the youngest, but those word choices are illogical and fail to understand how the comparative and superlative degrees of modifiers actually work. Here are a few more sentences to...
The distinction between like and as, which was once a darling of the grammar police, is growing more faint by the day. Just this morning, I read the following sentence by someone whom I consider among the best living writers, Maria Popova: Like Whitman did with...
