Look over there! That man is being arrested. His car is being searched by the police. His girlfriend is being taken away. All his luggage is being put in the police van. I wonder what has happened.

Writers, over the last decade, have been waxing lyrical about the rise of the present tense in English fiction. But this morning I read something entirely new – for me, at least. I read a manuscript ...

In the news, I heard a reporter from BBC World talking about the casualties of a blast. "Two have been killed and twenty were injured," he said. My question is: is it possible to use two different ...