Suppose you were reading and came to the following line:- Motivated Grammar
“She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in their clothes.”Would you …
(a) continue reading, because that’s a perfectly acceptable sentence, or
(b) throw a tantrum and insist that the author is an imbecile speeding the wholesale destruction of the English language?
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’re probably answering (a). If you’re answering (b), I regret to inform you that you hate the writing of C. S. Lewis.
descensus Averno facilis est