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"Everyone" is singular, even though it encompasses a vast number of people. That can sometimes make writing sentences difficult, grammarian June Casagrande explains.
PW caught up with the famous lexicographer to talk about the recently published Fifth Edition of his essential guide—and his lifelong fascination with the English language.
The fifth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage has recently been published by OUP. I was happy to talk to Bryan Garner—who was declared a “genius” by the late David Foster Wallace—about what it means to write a usage dictionary.
This column comprises the answers—or is it the other way round? | Culture
A letter from a mistaken reader reminds us of the importance of dictionaries and the arbitrariness of some English usage guides, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.