If you are applying to graduate school in English and do not want to study anything other than Black Studies, you shouldn’t waste your time on an application to the University of Chicago. Here is an announcement on the department’s...
English
Why Do We Try Not to End Sentences with a Preposition?
It all goes back to 17th-century English writer John Dryen. Here is a taste of Dan Nosowitz‘s piece at Atlas Obscura: Dryden twice stated an opposition to preposition stranding. In an afterword for one of his own plays, he criticized Ben...
You May Have Quoted Shakespeare Today
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