A woman whose first language is Persian wonders about the word enduring. Can she describe the work of being a parent as enduring? While the phrase is grammatically correct, the expression enduring parenting is not good idiomatic English. This is...
Serene from New York City, who teaches writing with a colleague, asks whether done and finished are interchangeable. The old schoolroom rule that work is done while people are finished appears in many classrooms. But there is no historical evidence...