While educated people agree on most grammatical rules, there are fierce debates on a few key points. We're going to lay down the most controversial rules and explain when to follow them and when to ...

It is really a matter of learning which verbs take 'to-infinitive' clauses and which take an '-ing' clause, Claudia. After some verbs, e.g. 'tell', 'advise', 'ask', 'to-infinitive' follows the object: ...

Teresa Lee from Taiwan writes: Would you please give me some more examples of the formulation noun + to-infinitive, such as permission to enter in the sentence: We were refused permission to enter the ...