Free ebook: ‘A White Heron’ by Sarah Orne Jewett

Dear friends and followers of the Grammaticus blog, It is my pleasure to present the third title in the series of Grammaticus Free Library ebooks. After โ€˜The Snowโ€™ by Hugh Walpole and โ€˜A Morning Walkโ€™ by Kate Chopin, you can now download Sarah Orne Jewettโ€™s short story โ€˜A White Heronโ€™, first published in 1886. Typical …

Further or farther

Please email me for further information.  To reach the post office, walk farther down the street. Further, fartherโ€ฆ Whatโ€™s the difference? Is it just two different spellings of the same word? The answer is yesโ€”and no. Please read on for some explanation. Both โ€˜furtherโ€™ and โ€˜fartherโ€™ are irregular comparative forms of the same adjective (and …