On third thought, I am guessing this is a deliberate elision by the writer. The full sentence as intended may be: As a started [player],...
(1) Yesterday, I saw the same grammatical usage again on another website. On further thought, my guess is that the reasoning is as follows (entry...
The second author, Zach Lowe, is a professional sportswriter at ESPN, and regarded by some as the best basketball writer anywhere. The first...
Sometimes I see writers conjugate a verb in a certain way that I do not understand, as seen in two examples. The first passage comes off a sports...
I've been perplexed by a certain usage of the uninflected verb, and see it quite often. For example, I happened upon the following passage in...
For myself, I read through maybe 4 or 5 of the best classic texts on grammar at projectgutenberg.org (search the term "grammar"). The classic...
In hindsight, what struck me about the sentence is, it really reads: "We wouldn't want him to have one of those injury-plagued careers, with a...
You'll notice that the sentences *actually read better* with "lose" and "chronicle", respectively. And I've seen many better writers apply the...
Yeah, I know they're different parts of speech, duh. My question is, to repeat: Why does their rendition sound so right? And which is...
Can anyone explain why the writer chose the word "lose" instead of "loss" in the following sentence? - from an NBA fan site. I've had the question...
Separate names with a comma.