I have long since rationalized any grammatical errors I might make as either "this is my writing style, sue me" or "we live in a world where both British usage and American usage are 'English,' and ...
John Munro. has in the past been a chief investigator on ARC-funded projects Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was ...
With friends, family, and romantic partners, we have much to tell and hear. What we communicate, however, depends not only on the content of what we say but also on the structure. In particular, ...
GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...
Scientists have discovered that a language's grammatical structures change more quickly than vocabulary, overturning a long-held assumption in the field. The study analyzed 81 Austronesian languages ...
Prospective grammarians, folks, and foes of grammarland! Behold, the imposing peak of conjugation in front of you! Pray, with a firm step let’s advance mightily and prepare to scale yet another height ...
Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...
Martha Brockenbrough, founder of The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, started National Grammar Day in 2008. Since then it has been held every year on March 4th, a date that also happens to ...
I think this is a weird case, where it used to be called a mutton dash (and a nut dash for en dash), but that was so long ago that the abbreviation nature has been lost and the proper form is "em" ...