I write to correct an understandable but nonetheless egregious grammatical error in JT Coyote’s attempt to parse the syntax of the Second Amendment in his opinion ...
Last week's column described the nominative absolute or absolute clause—to avoid confusion we will call it the absolute phrase—asa major departure from the usual modifying phrases in that it doesn't ...
The United States has too many guns because somebody did not learn ninth-grade grammar: the nominative absolute. Or, perhaps leaders did learn grammar, but prefer their followers not to know it. Would ...