Even for those who make a career out of loving books, sharing the right ones with the right people can take years of practice.

In the course of drafting his story, Chandler was no less annoyed by Hollywood than by a new unlikely foe: an Atlantic copy editor, who’d shown the temerity to fix a split infinitive in his text.

You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Dan. Admit to doing something wrong: admit + -ing. Admit means 'tell the truth about doing ...

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Abstract: Stemming is one of the important processes in text mining. The result of stemming process gives an impact on the next text mining process. Therefore, the technique of processing text data ...

Abstract: The Actuator with Adjustable Stiffness (AwAS) is an actuator which can independently control equilibrium position and stiffness by two motors. The first motor controls the equilibrium ...

There are a few basic rules regarding the use of infinitives and gerunds. Infinitives and gerunds are noun forms. If used before the main verb, they are the subject of the verb; after the main verb, ...

The first element of good style is clearness, and this may or may not be combined with literary elegance. It is usual to regard a split infinitive as a sign of indifference to pure English, yet this ...