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Throw the grammar rulebook out the window. Ever heard about the time Winston Churchill weighed in on ending sentences with ...
A Word, Please: It’s not easy on the experts when grammar rules fall out of favor. Experts used to insist that eating tomatoes was healthful, but now most agree it’s healthy.
The traditional grammar rule states when a pronoun follows a linking verb, such as is, it should be in the subject case. That means it is correct to say, ‘It is I,’ and ‘It was he who ...
Here are nine grammar rules you're probably breaking without even realizing it. As the executive editor at Avenue, a luxury lifestyle magazine in New York City, I see the value of grammar on a ...
A condition that depends on linguistic structure is a rule. A system of these rules is a grammar. This is what linguists mean when they talk about the grammar of a dialect.
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When I’m writing, I make my own rules. The words and the punctuation marks do what I tell them to, and I don’t need The Man imposing limitations on me. I’ll use punctuation marks you’ve ...
In “Rebel With a Clause,” Ellen Jovin offers this example to show how, even when grammar rules are applied rigorously, we can still run into trouble. Besides, even the rules are merely ...