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Whether you are in school or college, it is never a bad idea to have a good grammar book to improve your English. These books ensure that you know the rules of sentence formation, tenses, verbs ...
New grammar book for the CHamoru language has just been published. The author, Sandra Chung, a linguistics professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, spent 11 years working on "Chamorro ...
Now another book enters the fray: “The Glamour of Grammar,” by Roy Peter Clark, which in its tone and content is very much a manual for the 21st century.
What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we've probably been getting wrong in our English classrooms for years?
WHERE DO THE rules of grammar come from? Even those who care about the subject rarely, if ever, ask that question. The rules are simply the rules, passed down in good grammar books. But who wrote ...
Grammar books were the self-help manuals of the early republic. Cheaper and more available than other books, they were frequently the only classroom texts in small rural schoolhouses.
Stop trying to make language ‘funner.’ Grammar rules exist for a reason. Anne Curzan’s book ‘Says Who?’ goes too far in renouncing the fundamental rules of language usage ...