New graphic for a handout I first posted in 2000. "Nominalization."
Several journalist-involved tweet deletions occurred in connection with the Los Angeles Times. Doesn't that statement sound awkward? Language…
The ongoing protests following the killing of George Floyd were caught up in violence again on Saturday, as police all…
Teaching students to write does not mean correcting their errors, or even preventing them from making errors. While I'm grateful…
Language is a fluid, living social construct. The rules of grammar were not carved on stone tablets and handed down…
Descriptive grammarians rejoice. Formal written English is not the only legitimate form of the language, and the rules of formal…
The construction is more versatile than “because+noun” suggests. Prepositional because can be yoked to verbs (Can’t talk now because cooking),…
Similarly, “dived” is the traditional past tense of “dive”, but “dove” has overtaken it, as speakers have drawn an analogy…
Grammar test for 11-year-olds. telegraph.co.uk/education/educ…
Matthew Gordon, a linguist at the University of Missouri, says that with the advent of the Internet "a new wrinkle…
Yes, I got a chuckle over this, but if we present this as evidence of a link between grammar and…
If language is as instinctive to humans as dam-building is to beavers, if every 3-year-old is a grammatical genius, if the design…
bootlegs are wierd the only time i gop online is to blog on this my space woich juliet you are…
In general, we can slip up in a verbal conversation and get away with it. A colleague may be thinking,…