Readers' Ombudsman: There's nothing quite like grammar for provoking a response

THERE are a number of readers who keep a very close eye on our grammar. That is a good thing and we are quite happy, in fact probably a wee bit flattered, to be put under such scrutiny.

In this column, I recently answered a letter from Andrew HN Gray, who took me to task over a grammatical error. I wrote "keen that we are accurate in our usage of words", and he pointed out it should have read "keen that we be accurate in our usage o...