Ben FraserOct 27, 20204 minA Pedant's Guide to the English Language - Part Nine: CV Writing This week seems something of a deviation from the topical track, as beaten by the eight preceding blogs, all of which offer general...
Ben FraserOct 22, 20202 minA Pedant's Guide to the English Language - Part Eight: TautologyIn earlier essays, I have reflected on related topics such as logic, clarity, and style. In tautology, we have another subject to throw...
Ben FraserOct 22, 20204 minA Pedant's Guide to the English Language - Part Seven: Bad Style“It’s not wrong but it’s bad style” – is the kind of phrase you’ve probably heard before. [1] It might be that some of you, if your early...
Ben FraserOct 4, 20204 minA Pedant’s Guide to the English Language – Part Six: Subject-Verb AgreementFor us native speakers, subject-verb agreement largely takes care of itself; our instinctive grammatical understanding guides us to the...