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Insisting upon proper English grammar and spelling is not “elitist”; it’s just good sense.
Are you the sort of person who just loves correcting other people’s grammar? Are you sure that you’re doing it right? Some things that people have been taught are rules of English grammar are ...
Many of us parents and grandparents are working with our youngsters regarding correct English grammar. And we need all the help we can get to rectify such errors as “between he and the green ...
The Rutgers English Department trumpets its adoption of "critical grammar" as an expression of its commitment to "anti-racist" education. I'm sure it is sincere and well-intended.
While I've always been grammatically inclined, lately I've become even more sensitive toward the way people use (and misuse) the English language ...
Because consistency is always appropriate in proper grammar usage, the adjective “their” must agree in number with the subject and the verb.
The University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center now instructs students that expecting proper grammar from others perpetuates racism and “unjust language structures.” ...
Or is he? I know William Shatner (who famously played Captain James T. Kirk) is Canadian; does that hamper his grasp of correct English grammar? “To boldly go” is an example of a split infinitive.
Many bright teachers are ‘completely at sea’ with proper English grammar and have little knowledge of the literary canon because their own education lacked rigour, a top headmistress says.
THE ancient notion of English grammar was one of certain categories of words, and certain rules for their proper use. This is still the idea implied in most of the dictionary definitions of the ...