A good few years back the old Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, carried out research into the mistakes most commonly made by learners in their written Irish. The ...
The most common use of the perfect infinitive is to say ‘after having done’ something. Après avoir fait mes devoirs, j’ai regardé la télé. – After having done/After doing my homework, I watched TV.
Reader Don in Los Angeles County wrote recently with a question about a well-known grammar issue called a “split infinitive.” “I learned about them 50 years ago and I am somewhat sensitive about them ...