There’s no there there” was Gertrude Stein’s classic slander of the city of Oakland, Calif. That was the last time a sentence was started successfully with a pronominal, impersonal there. There is an ...

For many years, the adverb "hopefully" has caused a tug of war involving language experts, teachers and other assorted authorities. They are tussling over how this adverb should be used. Before ...