Karen's telling me this: She's riding her bike and another cyclist pulls alongside her. "Can I tell you something?" he asks politely. "I noticed you're really working hard. It would be a lot easier to ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...

When you look up a verb in the dictionary what you find is the verb in the infinitive form. In English it’s two words - ‘to swim’ - but in German it’s just the one schwimmen. In German, there’s a ...

Has anyone got anything better to do with their morning than argue about the merits, or otherwise, of splitting infinitives? No? Well then, let's get cracking. Patricia T O'Conner and Stewart ...