Time travel always seemed to me a silly idea — at least as it’s portrayed in movies and on TV. Sure, it’s fun to ponder whether a guy can be his own grandpa. But time-travel movies always fall apart ...

An infinitive is the ‘to’ form of a verb, for example to play, to watch, to be. In Spanish infinitives end in ar, er or ir. Use the infinitive to give opinions, after modal verbs, and with certain ...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW was once so angry with a subeditor that he complained to the newspaper. “I ask you, sir,” Shaw wrote, “to put this man out.” The cause of his fury? The editor had insisted on ...