My brother frequently drives from New Jersey to New York across the George Washington Bridge to visit our 94-year-old mom. Her name is Shirley Clark, and she likes Chris Christie. She prefers her ...

In the previous column, on variation in sentence patterns in te reo, attention was focused specifically on the difference between active and passive verb-forms. With an active verb the subject is ...

Of all the technical advice I offer writers, none is more controversial than encouragement to use the passive voice. Most writers prefer the active, and so do I. But that preference has been distorted ...

Learning any language, obviously, entails becoming familiar with numerous features of the language in question. Recent columns have been focussed on gaining broad understanding of the use of the ...