You see this a lot. People say, “Someone that…” It doesn’t matter what kind of person you are talking about, what they do, what skills or qualities you admire, a person is never that. A person is always who. I know most people say that, and I shouldn’t worry about it, but I do not [...]
Nobody seems to understand this tense. I’m talking about published authors here, as much as anybody else. It’s the past past tense. Sort of. Okay, first there’s the simple past tense. You know: I walk, I walked; she waits, she waited. Walked and waited, you may remember from third grade, are called past participles. Then [...]