One of the things we should avoid as a communicator is to get an unsavory reputation for declaring everything we say as absolute truth. To be a credible, we need a well-developed capacity to ...

When this column took up the grammar of "if"-conditional sentences last week, I emphasized that a good communicator doesn't make bland assertions of truth every time but expresses them simply as ...

The most common mixed conditional combination is when we have a third conditional in the if-clause (if + past perfect) followed by a second conditional (would + infinitive) in the main clause. To ...