Ask Doctor Dot Fullstop
Hello, and welcome to my new introductory page for this section, the aim being to answer those kind of grammar questions people want to ask but often never know where to find the answers, even on the internet.
My full name is Dorothy Pastense Fullstop, but the author of this book and website thought it would be funny to use my short-form name instead. For his own personal amusement, I suppose. But as I am the resident cartoon word scientist here, the job of asking those tricky questions has been passed on to me.
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So if you've got a question about English not covered by the Typical Errors in English book or even this website, then send them here and I will try to make every attempt to answer them, but in the same, simple, non-academic and easy to understand way., okay, I'll answer them. But don't think I'm going to be doing this every day.
WEBSITE EDITOR'S NOTE: So if you have any interesting questions of English to pass on to the good doctor, then send them to: roger@typicalerrorsinenglish.com
NOTE: Some of the questions that originally appeared on this page have now been moved to 'What's the difference'.
Why do many people think it's wrong to split infinitives? (Now moved to 'features')
How do you do reported speech in conditionals, and what do we call a citizen from Earth?