| 单词 | grammar |
| 例句 | “It’s elementary grammar. The human specifically stated that entry was forbidden as long as he was alive. That’s tantamount to an invitation when he’s dead.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I’d be Pa’s age before I ever saw the end of grammar school. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Sentences starting with there get a bad rap in many grammar guides. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the pronoun isn’t alone, instinct goes down the drain, and grammar with it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma taught them, too, and wrote in her diary to keep track of their Latin grammar exercises. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Forced by the grammar to take a stand one way or the other, hermaphrodite is male and indecisiveness female. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There’s a peculiar, wishful kind of grammar for talking about things that are desirable, as opposed to things as they really are. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He lent her the textbook he had studied while attending the University of Glasgow, and she completed her first Greek grammar lesson before breakfast. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Attempts to develop a new language by first inventing the grammar and spelling never seem to result in a language that people find useful. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I saw allusions in passages that Danny and his father overlooked, and I resolved a contradiction with an appeal to grammar. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The categories of grammar reflect the building blocks of thought—time, space, causality, matter—and a philosophical wordsmith can play with them to awaken her readers to metaphysical conundrums. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Others had to do with science and grammar. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It was boring, and we knew that if we did not learn grammar instead of just phrases, we would never learn English. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Helena, a grammar school teacher in Bremen, was very unlikely to make that mistake. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After history, we had grammar and mathematics, but the most interesting thing that I learned all morning was that the boy across the room was named Donald Burch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the grammar of our relationship, I am the object. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In his grammar school classroom, however, the boy already makes students around him uneasy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The curriculum included grammar, mental arithmetic, philosophy, geography, and algebra. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s because there’s a special, “what if” sort of grammar that kicks in when we talk about something that’s untrue. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She also helped him with his grammar and his atrocious spelling. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I discovered that my father’s method of teaching me Talmud and his patient insistence that I learn Talmudic grammar—I had painfully memorized an Aramaic grammar book—was now standing me in good stead. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Anne kept busy by writing graffiti on the Tower walls. grammar. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a grammar geek,” explained one young New Zealand woman. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z My grammar school years especially were the years when the great Church doors opened to enclose me, filling my day as I was certain the Church filled all time. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Marian’s grammar school, like her neighborhood, was racially mixed, with black students and white students, but all the teachers were white. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Hanover was always correcting my grammar and pronunciation,” Miss Love told me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Traditional grammars tend to run the three concepts together. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Francie, shaky enough regarding English grammar, spelling, and punctuation, didn’t stand a chance with the French language. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “So ciphering and grammar make people crazy,” I said, taking care to phrase it as a statement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Good spelling and good grammar and good word skills are essential for every student. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My freshman literature teacher only smiled when I mentioned the grammar school incident concerning Flaubert. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In case my friends’ grammar and punctuation weren’t upsetting enough, the fact that nobody thought there might be a problem with ME was enough to blacken my mood pretty thoroughly. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t sat with anyone other than my friends at lunch since grammar school. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I bought English grammars and found them dull. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, the meaning instead of the grammar of what Claudia had said penetrated. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z People who take this prohibition seriously have gotten their grammar wrong. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z More than three years had passed since Santa Sofía de la Piedad had brought him the grammar when Aureliano succeeded in translating the first sheet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After delivering a brief lecture on the vagaries of grammar and syntax, calculated to irritate Burr, Hamilton went on the offensive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It makes pellets out of phonemes, implies that the deep structures of grammar are made of something like cement. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The house of grammar has many rooms, and some of them are haunted. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a smart monkey, Colin possessed an extensive vocabulary, but very little grammar. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Read said, “A good idea! A grammar, a New Testament, and a dictionary, eh? I can let you have those in French.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t let people get to you so much that you forget about grammar.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Candidates couldn’t even spell the words “grammar” and “sentence”, let alone use them in any well-informed way. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The goal of this chapter is to allow you to reason your way to avoiding the major errors of grammar, word choice, and punctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A few years later, when Robbie won his scholarship to the local grammar, Jack Tallis took the first step in an enduring patronage by paying for the uniform and textbooks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was more information about courses and records in grammar school and extracurricular activities but Obie closed the notebook as if he were lowering a coffin lid. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Insatiably curious about the world, the child peppered her grammar school teachers with questions and skipped ahead from second grade to fifth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Though your nonsexist intentions are good, your grammar isn’t—not today, anyway. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My spelling and my grammar were as bad, if not worse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave me her finishing school grammar book. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z These rules are a sort of grammar for the language of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He made no distinction between grammar and content, between form and substance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z William had a comfortable place in a settled society and suffered none of the hardships experienced by Kepler; he studied at the local grammar school, then went up to Cambridge in 1558. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z II. The term "etymology" as used in grammar must be carefully distinguished from "etymology" in the sense of word-analysis. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the correspondence exercises and lessons, some of the mechanics of grammar gradually began to come back to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you might want to work on your grammar,” Ruthanne added with a mouthful of egg salad sandwich. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a comical moment in the fifth year when our English teacher demanded, “But you have had lessons in grammar?” and we all looked shifty, as if the fault was ours. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer vacation he went to the seventh grade at the middle school, while I was in the sixth grade at the grammar school. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But Granny was a fine lady anyway, never mind her grammar or her country ways and never mind how plain she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Felicia remembers how when she was in grammar school the paraphernalia of faith had proved more intriguing than its overwrought lessons. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The grammar school curriculum consisted of grammar, logic, and rhetoric—a three-part system of knowledge called “the trivium” that was regarded as the foundation of learning. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z With the first years of puberty, the last years of grammar school, we began hearing about ‘sins of the flesh.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The texts were in formal Spanish, with thee and thou, and grammar that was hard to follow. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We have DNA for grammar, neurons for syntax. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z How lovely to see my quadratic equations, my social studies notes, and my English grammar book again. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was shocked to hear that I, who had been only to grammar school, had been classified as an intellectual. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I got the feeling the smile wasn’t only because I had corrected his grammar. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z When they more or less gave birth to the systematic education of young people, it is worth noting that their first compulsory seven subjects were grammar, rhetoric, logic, maths, geometry, astronomy and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There are no rules for graceful writing, at least not in the sense that there are rules for grammar and punctuation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking of grammar as the original sharing app makes it much more interesting and much more useful. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He thought that Claudia would not approve of the grammar in his mental telegram; she would want him to think stay in place. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And Siobhan said that she would help with the spelling and the grammar and the footnotes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Salinas had two grammar schools, big yellow Structures with tall windows, and the windows were baleful and the doors did not smile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Best of all, grammar is a fascinating subject in its own right, at least when it is properly explained. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Eats, Shoots & Leaves is not a book about grammar. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Coming home from grammar school with new friends, I would hear it, its reminder: My new intimates were strangers to her. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Why bother struggling with the grammar lessons of a six-year-old if each of us didn't believe that, against all reason, we might eventually improve? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It also helps to remember, however, that music theory is a bit like grammar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Hazel grew up—did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn’t learn anything in either place. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As I am writing this chapter, every few pages I see the green wiggly line of Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, and usually it flags an agreement error that slipped under my tree-spotting radar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Several of the best players on that team were his grammar school classmates and fellow altar boys, and they served as his protectors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Besides serving as president, he also taught Greek, Latin, mathematics, geology, English literature, history, grammar, and philosophy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I knew my wife before we were in grammar school. She lived on the corner,” he said, pointing up the street. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z These language theorists then make up rules that clarify grammar and spelling and point out the relationships between words. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “You ain’t read it,” she said, forgetting her grammar in her anger. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The Feast of All Souls, I ran from my tutor — Latin and grammar — no wonder! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Confession was a regular part of my grammar school years. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I read the grammar book last night and it explains the whole thing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to return to grammar school violence, the cherished honor of the schoolyard that wasn’t honor at all, the necessity of proving yourself by bloody noses and black eyes and broken teeth. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My brown eyed, grammar nerd, soccer star boyfriend. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the world of text messages, ignorance of grammar and punctuation obviously doesn’t affect a person’s ability to communicate messages such as “C U later”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes they were grammar mistakes, sometimes they were mistakes with geography or facts, and sometimes the article just didn’t tell the whole story. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But his grammar was worse than Trotter’s, and, to Gilly’s disgust, he’d stumble over words of more than one syllable whenever he read the Bible. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “And where is Edmund this morning?” said Julian as we opened our grammars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Nobody knows why the notion stuck— possibly because it’s closer to Latin grammar, or perhaps because the word preposition means “position before,” which seems to suggest that a preposition can’t come last. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time Mr. Kapasi had been teaching English in a grammar school, and he bartered his skills as an interpreter to pay the increasingly exorbitant medical bills. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I mean, I’m usually Astrid Jones, pacifist poet type who doesn’t usually pick fights outside of correcting your grammar. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Some rules of grammar may shift every eon or so, but you can bet the bank that this one will never change: Subject and verb must agree. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The grammar school was on Division Street, and my mother liked to tell us we were “going to Division Street to learn division.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Long ago, before he had even heard of grammar schools, he was entered for an exam that led him to one. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z After grammar, we do silent reading for the last ten minutes of class, and I think about starting The Perks of Being a Wallflower but reread Brown Girl Dreaming instead. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I also wrote other things I needed to learn for school and things I wanted to know by heart, like spelling words, and math and grammar rules. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Half the women were younger than she, half were older; they had shared no experience that she could recall, except one female with whom she had quarreled steadily all through grammar school. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Dandy, too, was an influence, meticulously correcting our grammar or admonishing us to enunciate our words when we went over for dinner. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Many subsequent grammars of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries make the same distinction. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The lamp on Dr. Roland’s desk cast a warm, buttery circle of light and, after turning the radio on low to the classical station in Boston, I settled on the couch with my French grammar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She would have been impressed with my grammar and spelling, though she might have found fault with my penmanship. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z All throughout the years that he lived in Budapest, Bobby studied Russian almost every day, and he used Olga to correct his grammar and pronunciation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I felt that I was getting a better sense of the language from novels than from grammars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My vocabulary and grammar picked up enough so that I could stumble through the E. Nesbit books. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He reviewed his grammar, taking quick peeks at the phrase book. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We spent long days tackling spelling and multiplication and grammar. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He would use words a foot long and then slip up on his grammar. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Every town in Massachusetts had a grammar school, and from the age of eight, pupils there would be taught the classics from eight in the morning until dark fell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The book has a lot of bad grammar, and my dad says it got banned when he was in school because it was racist. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Nat wished he had had a grammar and dictionary of their language, too. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She was proper bright kid—very likely goin’ to grammar school an’ all, so they told him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of our school's built in the last thirty years, but one part's an old grammar school from Victorian times and the Old Gym's in that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z That is how many of them had passed through twelve years of grammar and high school, in the end still needing to be considered culturally disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t need a grammar lesson, Foaly, just zoom in, would you?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I found the ones with decent grammar and stayed up reading all night. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We are programmed to identify patterns and generate grammar. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if Maddie thought so too; she didn’t go to a Swiss boarding school, she was at a grammar school in Manchester and she certainly never thought about going to university. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was a grammar school skill I acquired with comparative ease. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They had always played in the same gang when they were kids, but in the last three years he had been at Vocational while she was still in grammar school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “One of those jelly beans definitely had some grammar in it.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z If you picked anxious to go, you should be anxious about your grammar. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing a bit of grammar also gives a writer an entree into the world of letters. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The result is that the grammar of the fact is profoundly problematic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I saw a picture of the Sacred Heart in the grammar school classroom I entered two years after the priest’s visit. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With his hayseed grammar, denim shirt and lifetime-member NRA cap, Dad would have always been out of place at Harvard, but his scarring intensified the effect. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Tell me more about grammar in the Talmud, Reuven,” he said to me, with a gentle hint of mockery in his voice. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I had taken interest tests in grammar school to indicate in what direction I should be thinking of going. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Our extended separation has so far improved my devotion to Anatole, my French grammar, and my ability to live with uncertainty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But the writers I have in mind are the purists—also known as sticklers, pedants, peevers, snobs, snoots, nit- pickers, traditionalists, language police, usage nannies, grammar Nazis, and the Gotcha! The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z By understanding how the various features of grammar are designed to make sharing possible, we can put them to use in writing more clearly, correctly, and gracefully. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Loads of words aren't actual words you can look up, but screws of grammar that hold the sentence together. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He skipped two grades in grammar school and when he was eleven he was ready for Vocational. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z That evening Dr. Bentley said, “Here you are; a grammar, a dictionary and—by the way, do you know your Bible well?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z More generally, it’s essential to keep an open mind about how to diagram a sentence rather than assuming that everything you need to know about grammar was figured out before you were born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The advertising agency and the tobacco company were delighted by the unpaid publicity and were only too happy to confess to the error in the coda, “What do you want, good grammar or good taste?” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z No one devised this grammar, and no one wrote down its rules, but they came to be generally understood for the simple reason that they were based on the paradigm case of geographical discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was true that she still inquired of people if they’d eaten yet, odd as it sounded; Ralph invented his grammar on the fly; even Theresa struggled to put her Chinese thoughts into English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she just leaned back and shouted out the answers, her bronzed arms folded across her chest like some great grammar genie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A few days later Nat was ready to start learning Spanish; he had a dictionary, a grammar, and a New Testament. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After meeting a black grammar school friend of my sister’s, I remember thinking that she wasn’t really ‘black.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I worked on an awful math problem and translated three pages of French grammar besides. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The thought of Sister Redempta and anybody going frog hunting was a hoot, but I knew she was just correcting my grammar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But because coordination phrases are headless, the harmony is not a requirement of our intuitive grammar, and few of us can consistently pull it off. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Lazlo’s grasp of the spoken language was tenuous, but he managed to answer, in uncertain grammar, “I want to come with you. Please, let me be of service.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A dictionary buff, a devotee of obscure words, he had been intent on improving his companion’s grammar and expanding his vocabulary ever since they had celled together at Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The teacher of Latin was a pale intense young man who had failed in divinity school and yet had enough education to teach the inevitable grammar, Caesar, Cicero. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Everything about it was different from grammar school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Rinaldi was sitting on the bed with a copy of Hugo’s English grammar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I’d admit, for one thing, that I went to an excellent grammar school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack himself always said that when you make a bomb you are also constructing a statement, employing a more complicated grammar than is required. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re lucky that English, with its stretchy grammar and its giant grab bag of a vocabulary, gives us so much room for verbal play, if not anarchy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And it can take the fear and boredom out of grammar, because it’s always more inviting to master a system when you have a clear idea of what it is designed to accomplish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The lady tells us it took him twenty years to write the dictionary, and he also wrote the first schoolbooks and grammar books. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z At the grammar school ceremony several weeks after, her eyes were brighter than the trophy I’d won. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You have written your story with sound grammar and interesting style. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I divide the hundred usage issues into points of grammar, the expression of quantity and quality, word choice, and punctuation. adjectives and adverbs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z By repetition in class, Shin mastered the alphabet and basic grammar. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The rule is a product of the usual three confusions: English with Latin, informal style with incorrect grammar, and syntax with semantics. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ms. Smith has us do grammar exercises with sentences we’ve written in our journals. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The thing that bothered me most about my little brother was the way he constantly corrected everyone’s grammar. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z But Hoggart’s calm prose only makes me recall the urgency with which I came to idolize my grammar school teachers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In his library, he collected various Russian-English dictionaries and, also, books on Russian grammar and conversation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As she came home from grammar school, little boys came up behind her and pushed her down to the sidewalk. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During the last three years of grammar school, I was regularly asked to ‘serve’ as an altar boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There are other historians of grammar who say this Love-His-Labour-Is-Lost explanation is ignorant conjecture and should be forgotten as soon as heard. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z From grammar school to graduate school I could always name my reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To illuminate the grammar of a sentence 2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He would possess a picture of the two of them, eating fried onions under a magenta umbrella, which he would keep, he decided, safely tucked between the pages of his Russian grammar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Jack Tallis was his patron, Leon and Cecilia were his best friends, at least until grammar school. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And then there’s Blue, with his perfect grammar, who has no freaking clue how many times I proofread every email I send to him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He built grammar schools into the neighborhoods because he did not believe young children should have to ride buses to school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He was considered educated, having graduated from grammar school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Anne Bell and Mark Fossie had been sweethearts since grammar school. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother sometimes invited my grammar school friends to stay for dinner or even to stay overnight. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During those years when I was memorizing the questions and answers of The Baltimore Catechism, I was also impressing on my memory the spelling of hundreds of words, grammar rules, division and multiplication tables. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Their future rode heavily on their shoulders, and blinded them to the collective joy that had pervaded the lives of the boys and girls in the grammar school graduating class. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a friend in grammar school whose mother wore hot pants and white vinyl go-go boots just like Nancy Sinatra. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But I agree with the main idea behind the nostalgia: literate people should know how to think about grammar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She performed well aca-demically; so well, in fact, that she was among just a few students from her grammar school fortunate enough to get admitted into Cambridge and Oxford. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "And you could use a few lessons in grammar." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Lou went to Mass every Sunday, served as an altar boy, and attended BVM’s grammar school before moving on to Father Judge High School, which had three thousand students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But I insisted, explained, cajoled, raised my voice, gestured with my hands, quoted whatever proof texts I could remember from the grammar book, and finally he accepted my explanations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In Manchester he became something of an intellectual whirlwind, producing books and papers on subjects ranging from meteorology to grammar. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Large classes were graduating from both the grammar school and the high school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z See that your grammar and spelling are impeccable. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Things were so simple at the start, before grammar came along and ruined things. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Calpurnia was sitting in a haughty dignity that appeared on state occasions, and with it appeared erratic grammar. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Though, according to this book, no grammar existed with the Wyrdmarks: everything was just symbols that one had to string together. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Even while grammar school nuns reminded me of my spiritual separateness from non-Catholics, they provided excellent public schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael Gove stands accused of being old-fashioned for putting renewed emphasis on the teaching of grammar. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z To the headmistress of our all-girls grammar school, fashion was at odds with high-mindedness. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Easy to see how a play about a northern grammar school has resonance, I say, but why that Shakespeare in particular? A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z To learn grammar was to appreciate the book’s poesy, which in turn was to break open a once-inaccessible text. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Her works play off poor grammar and lack of context for maximum comedic effect, turning everyday updates into surreal, vibrant scenes. Celebrity Tweets, In Full Color 2010-03-08T18:15:00Z “You find 200 titles with ‘Syntax,’ and you think there must be a big grammar debate that year,” Ms. Martin said, “but it was just that Syntax was winning.” Analyzing Literature by the Words, but Also the Numbers 2010-12-03T20:30:00Z "Accuse me of anything but do not attack my grammar." Tragically misquoted, Taylor Swift sets SAT study guide straight 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Like a lot of its fans, I admit to harboring a longstanding love of The Oatmeal based largely on its grammar posts. Internet shocker: Kindness wins 2012-06-12T20:20:00Z And while I’m not wild about grammar games, it seemed to work, too. A Program That Aims to Lead to Post-Divorce Peace 2012-12-15T00:39:25Z Today, Greene’s images evoke a time when travel was still an adventure, ancient civilizations were largely mysterious and the grammar of photography was just being invented. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z She uses poor grammar and spelling constantly throughout the book to portray the style of speech that Saba uses. Blood Red Road by Moira Young - review 2012-02-10T09:00:00Z He faxed back saying he didn't, at the same time correcting her grammar. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z And please excuse the typos — these are written using Reddit grammar rules. “Horrible dried-out garbage”: Chain restaurant employees reveal what to never order 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z So it annoys linguists to no end to hear the latter “rule” associated with “grammar”, while the real, intricate grammar already embedded in the mind is ignored. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Similarly, the best free-roaming verse is likely to have been written by people who have learned the concise, precise art of good grammar. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z The staff barely touches the prose; they will fix the author’s spelling, grammar and punctuation or redact a name, but they will not correct facts. She broke your heart. He left you. An L.A. museum wants to know all about it. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z When we’re speaking both for and to our dogs, there are other reasons their voices might be high-pitched or cartoonish, or include poor syntax and grammar, or — to put it gently — a simple personality. The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk The publishing company also offered to buy concert tickets for two grammar nerds/Swift fans. Taylor Swift hits back at Princeton Review's 'bad grammar' claim 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Line by line, they discussed grammar, idioms, tone, style. No Longer Driving a Cab, a Syrian Writer in America Focusses on His Fiction 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z “There was one moment when her grammar slipped,” Jones says with a smile. Diana Taylor doesn’t have a name for her relationship with Mike Bloomberg. She just wants him to win. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z I was precocious, skinny as a French green bean and with a mouth filled with bad country grammar. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z I am talking about not understanding words, expressions and grammar — about “schoolboy howlers.” Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z In any case, the narrator insists that the fate of the world hangs in the balance, in sentences that combine pompous syntax, palatial rhetoric, and dodgy grammar. The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump’s Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z One of the prisoners who brought magazines like Newsweek and Time into the prison also served as a mentor, helping him understand grammar rules. The for-refugees, by-refugees newspaper that prints in six different languages 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z “My grammar books got rained on,” she said. This Grammar Guru Will Solve the World’s Problems 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Frank Pierson created the grammar of the urban crime story in "Dog Day Afternoon."You would imagine that one of the top screenwriters ever would talk down to TV, and think it was slumming. Media Decoder: Remembrances of Frank Pierson, Creator of 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' 2012-07-27T17:36:05Z Communication, pronunciation, elocution, writing of all forms, grammar, punctuation, public speaking, whatever the students needed in this broad area, I was to help them with it. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, the driver doesn’t appreciate having his politics — or his grammar — questioned, and he promptly gives K. a black eye. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Suffering has also been a longtime mainstay of film grammar, and not always necessarily predicated on violence. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z He bristles angrily at Mya’s street slang and rigorously corrects her grammar. ‘Bastards of Strindberg,’ Four Short Plays at the Lion 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Above all he taught himself grammar and spent a lifetime insisting on the importance of being able to express yourself clearly. My hero: William Cobbett by Richard Ingrams 2013-03-08T16:00:03Z Each person’s sense of grammar probably came from his or her teachers or parents. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Morgenshtern and Mr. Lin’s recipe for success began in a grammar school kitchen in Brooklyn. In Cooking Class, the Right Ingredients 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z In fewer than 140 characters, I count one error in punctuation, one in spelling, one in grammar and one in word usage. ‘I am a genious’ and other cluelessly ironic spelling errors 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Grammar is not just about grammar: it is also about logic and intellectual rigour. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Some lefties put it about that grammar is a horrid thing because it is "elitist". Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z As a fun thing to do on a Friday night, attending a show about grammar is not an obvious choice. Dance Review: Claire Porter at Joe’s Pub 2014-04-30T20:47:09Z Enemy Number One: The pedant or self-styled grammar snob, who has been with us for at least 400 years judging by the examples presented here, wringing his hands and lamenting the decline in linguistic standards. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z It was a bright, sunny day at my girls’ grammar school in 1983. Experience: I killed my classmate with a javelin on sports day 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z He went to St Albans grammar school for boys, and then to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the mid-1960s, where he read modern languages, directed plays and became president of the amateur dramatic club. Malcolm Griffiths obituary 2010-12-02T18:18:00Z "There’s a good deal of slippage here, from grammar through usage, syntax and diction all the way to regional accent," Ferriss writes at the Chronicle of Education's Lingua Franca blog. For grammar geeks: 'Grammar Revolution' the documentary 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The oldest of four daughters — and two sets of twins — she attended public grammar school and a private Catholic high school. Meet the museum director behind the Hirshhorn’s Kusama show 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Based on grammar alone, Tinder is making a statement: Single is a noun, a state of being, not an adjective that might apply for a short time. Analysis | Tinder and OkCupid have given up on finding you a soul mate. Their ads even admit it. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Born Joyce User in London, she left grammar school aged 14 and attended Workers' Education Association evening classes. Joyce Robertson obituary 2013-05-19T11:56:05Z The visual grammar of a familiar genre offers viewers a comfortable structure, within which the filmmakers can mess around, Mr. Piedmont said. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It includes 55 items from Gilder Lehrman; the rest are from the Morgan and other sources, including the Library of Congress, which lent a precious grammar book used by the young Lincoln. ‘Lincoln Speaks: Words That Transformed a Nation’ at Morgan Library 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Its African-music flourishes are now just an accepted part of indie rock grammar. Critic’s Notebook: Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago 2012-07-16T21:45:47Z I guffawed, but she read to me a dating site profile, and the writer’s wit, warmth and impeccable grammar skills told me: Here was a rare catch. Our marriage can’t be denied 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z The approach was pioneered by Frederick Jelinek at IBM, who, distrusting models that grew from analogies with human learning of grammar, insisted: "Whenever I fire a linguist, the performance of our system improves." Google Translate and the battle for accurate translations by computer 2010-12-19T00:05:52Z Her grammar is fine – Ann is a stickler for grammar – and her anecdotes make sense in that they have a beginning, a middle and an end. Strictly Ann: The Autobiography by Ann Widdecombe – review 2013-06-10T07:00:58Z Some parents are bothered by the misspellings and poor grammar in Pilkey's books, believing this sets a bad example for kids. Super Diaper Baby is back in all his powder and glory 2011-07-23T01:23:32Z Kemp spoke of one student – an Austrian – with a finer appreciation of English grammar than a room which included at least one Oxford graduate. Imogen Stubbs hits out at mumbling actors 2013-06-22T11:26:42Z So do “However” and “Therefore,” both of which have been targets of grammar grumblers in the past. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z I am an English major, but I do not correct anyone's spelling and grammar unless my work requires it or I'm asked to proofread something. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Adopt a good-faith approach to others’ language 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z She got rid of the cat people when she hit puberty, but kept the language she’d made for them — including an ornate script, a grammar, syntax, idioms, poems and short prayers. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z She wrote it in a flow state, scribbling it out in longhand and in notes thumbed into her phone, then handing over drafts of “chicken scratch” to her wife to help massage the grammar. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z I think it reminds me of being a kid, having to read aloud in grammar school and hating it, stumbling over words, feeling judged, feeling stupid. Andrew McCarthy Harbors a Secret Fantasy to Play Fagin 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Whereas most improv gets laughs through broad characters and dizzying plot twists, these companies delight in nothing more than a comic conceit about grammar or pronunciation. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z He was the first of his family to go to grammar school, and from there to Oxford. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z Will they get you through the most complex grammar? Inventive, Cheaper Tools for Learning a Language 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Judge David J. Barron’s opinion in the case is a feast of subtle delights for anyone with a taste for grammar and usage. A Few Words About That Ten-Million-Dollar Serial Comma 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The dance grammar is such that the movement manages to look busy and thin at the same time. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z Some may question the grammar, but it is hard to argue with the sentiment. New Brit awards statuette is unveiled 2011-01-13T00:03:01Z The singer, whose new fare about aluminum foil parodies poor grammar to the tune of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Lorde's "Royals", said it took about two years to complete the album and videos. 'Weird Al' Yankovic still trying to wrap head around No. 1 album 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Alpert said the trumpet he picked up in grammar school “had taken me so many places in my life. I think every kid should have that opportunity at an early age.” With Help From Herb Alpert, Letting the Light In at the Harlem School of the Arts 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z The pain that connects Rama and Laurence is like a secret language, an untranslatable grammar of alienation and loss. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Still, audiences who enjoy a grammar lesson with their straightforward, feel-good stories may find “Trying” worth trying. Review | Good grammar is essential to the D.C. judicial history lesson that is ‘Trying’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Read the email to check for spelling, grammar, and word usage errors. 6 Tips for Writing Better Emails 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z We should teach grammar to our poorest pupils to make sure that they have the ability to express themselves clearly and compete with children who have been to private school. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z In under a decade, these shows have created a global TV grammar, with seemingly every other talked-about show of the last few years boasting a Scandi feel. Fjord focus: Nordic noir lets the light in at last 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z In a recent study, linguist Evan Bradley asked people to judge the grammar of sentences with a singular “they” as “correct English” or not. For linguists, it was the decade of the pronoun 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z “He’s the foundation of our grammar, syntax, of our way of playing.” Wynton Marsalis on Louis Armstrong: 'His Spirit Permeated New Orleans' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z They also went to the same grammar school, and in September 2015, they ran into each other in Cambridge. Emily Hanno, Elías Sánchez-Eppler 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Pennsatucky has a deep Appalachian accent infusing every crumb of bad grammar that spills out of her mouth; her capability for comprehending nuance and metaphor is limited. No justice for Pennsatucky: Watching “Orange Is the New Black” in the wake of Brock Turner 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Neither do we get any analysis – even on a superficial level – of the style or grammar of the film. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z The musical shorts, which began airing on ABC in 1973, taught Generation X multiplication, grammar, history and, eventually, nostalgia. ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ at 50: Those Are Magic Numbers 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The poll also found that women are more likely than men to notice grammar and spelling errors in writing. Millennials are annoyed when your grammar's not on fleek 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The texture of the picture – what I call the grammar – comes from the printing. Photographer John Stewart's best shot 2011-01-05T22:00:01Z But grammar is much closer to a science than a set of commandments from a ruler-wielding nun. Q&A with Steven Pinker, author of ‘The Sense of Style’ Kind of cool," to Hal Duncan's, "I see myself as a maverick grammar cop who doesn't go by the book. Do grammar police arrest the imagination? 2013-06-12T16:40:30Z Ms. Jovin said that Latin grammar is not always directly analogous to English grammar. This Grammar Guru Will Solve the World’s Problems 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Among the non-tip tips: Surrender your ambition to reproduce, in grammar and syntax, the “whirlpool of debris” that constitutes reality. ‘In the Margins’ Offers a Path Into Elena Ferrante’s Mind 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z But while he ignores the rules of grammar, he is evidently happy to follow less profitable conventions. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Like many high achievers of his generation, Neil was a grammar school boy and he made a straight correlation between the arrival of comprehensive secondary education and the rebirth of the English political elite. TV review: Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Rule Britain and Great White Silence 2011-01-27T07:59:01Z I recently saw a T-shirt bearing this slogan: "I am silently correcting your grammar." Perspective | Ask Amy: Diner wonders about stepping in to stop harassment 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “If you meet someone who claims to ‘love grammar,’ chances are they mean they love ‘correct’ grammar and enjoy pointing out other people’s mistakes,” he writes. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z And then my own feelings just about the grammar of it, the language of it: Is there some other way to transmit and release information that isn't so prescribed? AP Interview: Soderbergh on quitting movies 2013-05-20T11:14:09Z His wife, Julie, teaches at a school specializing in classical Christian education, based on biblical readings and emphasizing grammar, logic and rhetoric. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z "In a dream you know that you have suddenly understood something and you feel elated, but when you wake it is lost, or at least you don't have the grammar to express it," he explains. Bring along your muse for a magical sleepover in the park 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z We feel around in it until a mysterious clicking starts, and then we wrestle the stuff into what we hope is proper grammar and wait for it to set. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Teaching children the "boring" rules of grammar will help them with job applications. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z That demonic grammar, diagrammed in hell; that cerebral fury, stoked for years: I felt as if my eyebrows were being burned off. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In the final section, the divisions between these stories collapse, but by this point in the novel we know these characters, the timbre of their voices, even the grammar of their minds. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z He attended grammar school and gained an Oxford scholarship, but this was thwarted by his national service in 1942. Jeff Keen 2012-06-24T15:35:14Z At “English Grammar Day”, an event at the British Library this summer, Bas Aarts, a syntactician at University College London, eloquently defended explicit grammar teaching. Rue the rules 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z And then various editors went through three or four rounds to fix the grammar, and finally, there is a version that is grammatically acceptable. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z As he swoops back and forth through the impressions and highlights of his long life, Ferlinghetti spits on conventional grammar and mocks the very idea of linear coherence. Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Some would like to believe that Donald Trump is humiliating himself on Twitter because of his misspellings, his random capitalization and his poor grammar. Decoding “the first Twitter president”: Mathematician Anthony Bonato on the science of Trump... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z By the time he was 19, he had had at least 11 different addresses and had attended five different grammar schools. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z And it's perhaps this sort of unexpected intervention that the gorilla shot now needs if it's to avoid becoming a cliche of TV grammar. The Lib Dem conference and the return of the gorilla shot 2010-09-23T06:00:00Z For the past decade, he said, movies have increasingly begun to combine “realist visual grammars with realistic special effects.” The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z In Iceland, baby names are supposed to fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules — choices like Carolina and Christa are not allowed because the letter “c” is not part of Iceland’s alphabet. 11 countries that don’t trust their citizens to name their babies 2014-04-02T12:45:00Z It was a boys' grammar and boys will be boys: there was a lot of laddish behaviour. Interviews with 18-year-old boys 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z In its earliest editions, “Chicago” focused almost entirely on matters of style, punctuation and typography, though starting with its 15th edition, “Chicago” finally joined the fray and included sections on grammar and usage. Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters? You should. 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Clips from many of his earlier endeavors eventually made their way into the pilot for “Random Acts of Flyness,” which shares a visual grammar with “Oversimplification” and some of the surrealist agitprop from “The Lobbyist.” Is America Ready for the Mind of Terence Nance? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z She eventually becomes a minor celebrity in certain circles, a columnist for The New York Times, the author of books that comment on culture as much as grammar and usage. In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Have you thought about taking remedial lessons in grammar and punctuation? The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4 1928-1929 (ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden) 2013-01-06T18:30:02Z He didn't get to go to university because he was forced to do a job as soon as he left grammar school. Nick Moran 2013-02-08T13:30:01Z Educated at Grangefield grammar school, he excelled as a quarter-miler on the athletics track and as a footballer, and his love of sport never left him. Charlie Gillett obituary 2010-03-17T19:09:00Z He didn’t care about my spelling or grammar. Modern Love: Learning to Silence My Inner Editor 2014-02-13T19:38:06Z That's according to a poll conducted by Harris for Dictionary.com, which found that 74% of Americans ages 18 to 34 are annoyed by grammar and spelling mistakes on social media, the Associated Press reports. Millennials are annoyed when your grammar's not on fleek 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z We're not going to get angry because of his grammar in a speech. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Students are not bogged down with translation and grammar. The Getaway: Paths to a More Fluent Vacation 2012-07-24T23:32:26Z But I’ve noticed that her grammar is occasionally poor, and I fear it may hold her back. Correcting a Co-Worker’s Grammar: Helpful or Hurtful? 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Living With a Dead Language” is a delightful mix of grammar and growth, words and wonder. Finding meaning late in life without ‘Eat Pray Love’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z It's all very well, this little lesson in grammar and semantics. Ricky Gervais 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z Punctuation favours the dash, the casual grammar of someone muttering to himself, or thinking aloud. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z After all that, the Uppity Socialist Schoolteacher is just going to leave and go to a grammar school in Preston? Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode five – a sedate echo of previous plots 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z This is especially the case when the use of incorrect grammar appears to be counterintuitive to the show's promotion of knowledge and intellect. "Jeopardy!" has to clarify its own rules after backlash over how a contestant asks questions 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z But I also assume that these grammar sticklers are good readers too. “You are reading human words”: The case for typos in the age of spellcheck 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s secondary maybe to the grammar and the fire, but I think that this is a very religious book. In "Hausfrau," "Anna Karenina" Goes "Fifty Shades of Grey" 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It's good for music diction, syntax, musical grammar. Pinchas Zukerman plays viola spectacular with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2011-02-10T20:50:07Z That is, children developed listening skills and built an understanding of grammar as well as vocabulary in the context of the story. Why every parent should read to their kids 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Hip-hop isn’t a subcultural curiosity or even an outsider success story: it is in the grammar of youth culture, of the whole country. An Appraisal: Chris Lighty, Hip-Hop Manager, Changed Music 2012-08-31T16:55:02Z It may be that your spelling, grammar and other details were flawless, but the body of your work was missing some vital organs. @Work Advice: No good way to say it. Deflecting—or not firing—casual insults. What follows is a brilliant, lucid, academic presentation on the grammar of birdsong and the ethics of studying animals in captivity. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Our choice of “If Donald Trump was…” comports with the many grammar books that consider “if he was” simply less formal. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The result is utterly distinctive and beguiling, with its own language and grammar of innocence: gentle, affectionate, whimsical, but deeply felt and with an arrowhead of emotional pain. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z Brooks also states as fact that “Shakespeare was a grammar school graduate.” On Hamlet’s Origins and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Porter was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was educated initially at the Church of England grammar school there. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z She and I talked through grammar school and then high school. The One Thing We Couldn’t Talk About 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Maybe the book that I missed that year that would've been the most useful to reassessing my opinion of "The Da Vinci Code" was Lynn Truss's humorous take on grammar, "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves." I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z We read her because the vocabulary was small and the language and grammar were plain. Laurie Anderson Needs Your Help Finding an Image From Balzac 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In early April he issued an ultimatum, threatening to block from his account anyone who sniped at his spelling or grammar. On the Twitter Patrol 2010-04-28T16:26:00Z Her early ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her grammar school graduation play, giving herself the leading role. Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z How conscious was he of using techniques that are "drawn from a grammar of film"? Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-13T21:55:01Z If you didn't get into the grammar school, your academic career would almost certainly fade fast. Ken Loach: 'the ruling class are cracking the whip' 2011-08-28T18:00:02Z But a vocal minority abuse him about it nonstop, telling the star that as much as they liked “The Sure Thing,” his grammar and spelling sure stink. On the Twitter Patrol 2010-04-28T16:26:00Z While Miranda clearly wants to get his listeners' creative juices flowing, he hasn't forgotten about the importance of grammar and sentence structure. Got writer's block? Lin-Manuel Miranda has a playlist for you 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z In 1938, after the early death of his mother, he was sent to board at Toowoomba grammar school, which he later described as resembling a prison camp. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z Several generations of American kids learned letters and numbers from “Sesame Street,” phonics from “The Electric Company,” and civics and grammar from “Schoolhouse Rock!” Review: Take the Next Trolley to ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z My brother was 11 and about to start grammar school. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The problem is that the grammar rules are never actually explained. What’s the secret to learning a second language? 2012-10-27T12:30:00Z The new city-states carving up the northern Italian peninsula favored scribes and administrators schooled in Latin grammar and rhetoric. ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished He was a bright, shrewd man who had passed the grammar school exam but didn’t go, because his mother couldn’t afford the uniform. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Eventually, she wrote Ernest Fleischmann, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s doughty leader, a letter in German, and he wrote back, corrected her grammar, and offered her a job. New president Deborah Rutter is Kennedy Center’s breath of fresh air from Windy City We charted a fishing boat in Key West, 5 grammar school buddys, 24 hours out to Dry Tortugas, 24 hours fishing in various spots around the fort, and 24 hours to return. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z He went to Kilburn grammar school, north-west London, arriving with a trumpet in his pocket and soon displaying artistic abilities. Paul Kriwaczek obituary 2011-03-17T19:00:53Z "Oh," someone will titter, "I hope I don't make any grammar mistakes when I'm talking to you!" A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Lapses of grammar are not fatal to either Clare or Cavendish, but help us appreciate their authenticity. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z Unlike the average English-language expletive thrown into everyday conversation, in Russian, cursing resonates as extremely crude; it has its own grammar and is never used in polite conversation. Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z He used to talk about the “grammar” of his particular music, freed from a tonal center. Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The fear of revealing yourself gives you a hypersensitivity to grammar, to sentence construction, to the patterns and variations in meaning. The monster in my mouth: Maggie O'Farrell on fighting her stammer 2013-02-27T20:00:01Z Walker shows up late for the class and interrupts Stoner’s lecture on grammar and rhetoric with annoying questions about the relevance of grammar to great poetry. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z James Brown didn’t sing “I Feel Goodly,” and a grammar scholar shouldn’t say “I feel badly.” Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z She shared the playwright’s view that an artist doesn’t copy the world but invents his or her own, one with its own geography, gravity and grammar. Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z O.K., but if he got 15% on a French test, why indicate that he “is beginning to identify and use the vocabulary, the grammar and language conventions appropriate to his grade level?” Motherlode Blog: I Know My Son Isn't Doing His Homework. Why Doesn't HIs Report Card Show It? 2013-04-30T16:23:01Z But there is a strain of wishful thinking in the idea that neologisms, revamped grammars, could effect better living.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The painting was assembled from this grammar of representation, with a lot of contrivance along the way. From sketch to painting, there’s no single clear path 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Run the subsequent lines of Anna Karenina through the system, though, and the picture, along with the grammar, is not quite so clear. Google Translate and the battle for accurate translations by computer 2010-12-19T00:05:52Z While not speaking German, Glass said working to Rainer Mennicken's libretto in that language was no problem because `'I knew the grammar and I just plugged in the words. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z Sprinkled throughout the week are creative writing, grammar, Spanish, Mandarin and Latin. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z She had James, whose decision near the end of his stay to hire a tutor to help him perfect his French grammar suggests he thought they could survive there. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z They also set out to blow up "perhaps the biggest grammar myth of all ... the infamous taboo against splitting an infinitive". Grammar lovers split over infinitives 2013-02-08T13:10:54Z For minority languages, however, language education is often not just a matter of mastering a vocabulary and a grammar, but of immersing oneself in a culture, a history, a way of life. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z As they settle into their English lessons, they will be made to learn grammar, spelling and punctuation as if these were as fixed as the stars in the sky. Rue the rules 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z We were studying Arabic numbers that day—I don’t mean the improvements on the clumsy Roman variety but number agreement in Arabic grammar. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z We learn of the 195 Latin translations of “your letter pleased me greatly” that young Will studied six days a week in grammar school. Theater Review: ?Being Shakespeare? With Simon Callow at BAM 2012-04-06T21:54:30Z "Growing up in the Boroughs I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school." Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z Ultimately, however, it must be a complement to learning proper vocabulary, the rudiments of grammar and basic spelling. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z Students studied Shakespeare, chemistry and French grammar as they prepared to become teachers, civil servants, musicians, clergy, military leaders, entrepreneurs and scientists. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z I count myself less a child of the Elizabethan age than a child of the 1944 Education Act, which gave a free grammar school education to those selected at 11. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z They say grammar should not be taught in state schools because it perpetuates privilege. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z The foundations of his love for theatre and the arts were laid at Abeokuta grammar school. Yemi Ajibade obituary 2013-04-18T16:57:15Z “The direct consequence was that suddenly we deemed boring grammar, history and literature, and stopped studying them.” Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Her vocabulary is eclectic and large, her grammar arrestingly idiosyncratic, her skill at group organization often superlative. Review: A Triple Bill at the Royal Ballet Comes Up Two-Thirds Short 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Abbey lists her interests as architecture, space exploration, inventing and home science experiments, and is hoping for a place at grammar school next year. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z At grammar school in the 1960s, Trimpin learned nothing of this, or of Germany's horrific "Final Solution" campaign that annihilated 6 million European Jews during World War II. Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust 2012-05-15T03:02:05Z "I wish I never met you/That's how much I regret you", regrets Sam Sparro, mourning the demise of his relationship with English grammar. This week's new tracks 2012-06-08T23:05:21Z She is "numerically dyslexic", she says, but managed to get into a girls' grammar school. Alex Kingston: 'Lady Macbeth freaked me out' 2013-06-19T18:30:05Z Even in extremis, grammar and language matter: Stevie upbraids Martin for referring to the “top” of a hill, when the preferred word, she argues, should be “crest.” Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z We will correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and length where necessary but we won't change what contributors want to say. Guardian children's books: Frequently asked questions 2011-03-02T12:27:59Z He and his wife, who also quit grammar school, were determined that their sons, including Colin, would be well educated. Colin Dexter, British author who created the Inspector Morse series, dies at 86 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The Atlantic called it “an erudite and loving and occasionally profane history of the English language” that’s also “a cheerful and thoughtful rebuke of the cult of the grammar scolds.” A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z For them, the grammar excuse seems to be a convenient fig leaf, and what it’s covering is these letter writers’ own prejudice. Perspective | A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Throughout, there’s a liminal quality between life and death, dreaming and waking, reality and fantasy — Gaiman’s métier with an additional Jungian visual grammar. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z “That’s the uniqueness of why this Internet is trapping and capturing so many people,” he whines, his grammar as confused as his morals. Rachel Dratch in ‘Tail! Spin!,’ a Political Comedy of Errors 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z That show is “Schoolhouse Rock!,” the 1970s-era cartoon that taught millions of American kids about grammar, math and civics. Think About It: President Trump could take a few lessons from “Schoolhouse Rock!” 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z This ellipsis is a casual piece of grammar. Perspective | The unbearable lightness of Elon Musk’s texts 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z She recalls watching Psycho with them aged eight, “really with the feeling that I was watching a masterpiece”, and credits them with instilling in her “the grammar of film, the tools that I could use”. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Its pages are a messy amalgam of heavy-handed graphic design, tiny type, competing fonts, and articles that often had typos, and grammar and spelling errors. Behind Lucky Peach’s Closing, Colliding Visions 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The flexibility of reveals that the contemporary grammar of obscenity existed in the early 19th century; the ubiquity of shows that 19th century people used bad words with abandon. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z Another thing that would have made him squirm: breaking the rules of grammar, especially, of all places, in an English class. The all of “y’all”: On finally embracing my voice, country twang and everything 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z According to respondents, icky grammar is related to laziness and apathy. It’s why UR still single: Millennials aren’t impressed by suitors with bad grammar and spelling 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It is redolent of an era in which K-pop was still establishing its own grammar, before it voraciously consumed everyone else’s. Blackpink and the Limits of K-Pop Maximalism 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Having defined the pictorial grammar of Neo-Plasticism, Mondrian bent the rules, composing variations and taking the idea to minimalist extremes, with a single triangle of colour and two intersecting lines, for instance. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z He also exercises a fantastically agile style that pushes hard against the banisters of traditional grammar. The comedic clash of an American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z There were only four kids in my class who were even allowed to sit it, and two of us passed and went to grammar school. A life in writing: Ian Kershaw 2011-08-17T11:00:01Z He has written history plays, mystery plays, biographical plays, political plays, science fiction plays and plays composed of gleefully bad grammar. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Something I still do, even if only to revise grammar, syntax, and punctuation. When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!' 2011-03-03T21:31:00Z He did well at his Catholic grammar school, but left without taking his final exams. John Byrne: in from the margins 2011-08-17T15:00:01Z There is a captivating oddity to how this tastily detestable character speaks, as if her frontal lobe were programmed with grammar and usage flash cards. A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z On top of that, my grammar is full of errors. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Relaying tales of natural women through a supernatural grammar flips essentialism on its head; these accounts offer up feminine bodies and performance at once. The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z I’m going to work on your grammar,’” Ms. Miller said. Susan Miller Always Has a Story for You 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “Jeu de Cartes” — a dense ballet in which every viewing yields a wealth of fresh details — shows Mr. Ratmansky’s remarkably witty command of ballet grammar. Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Their knowledge of cinema grammar is so acute. Director Noyce back from cold with "Salt" thriller 2010-07-21T07:04:00Z It’s important to write continuously and not worry about spelling, grammar, or style — after all, you will probably be the only one to see it. ‘I started crying uncontrollably’: Dealing with mixed emotions over the pullout from Afghanistan 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z "I hope my friends read my moms book," the first-grader said in an email, clearly composed on her own, 6-year-old grammar and all. President's sister puts their mom in picture book 2011-04-12T11:13:09Z Even more hurtful is that two of the categories selected for the chopping block — cinematography and editing — are without question the foundational elements of cinematic grammar. Perspective | Without editing and cinematography, there’s no movies. So how can you have an Oscars telecast without them? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Sarandon is from a working-class New Jersey family, the oldest of nine children, who was sent to a Catholic grammar school and told early on that she had “an overabundance of original sin”. Susan Sarandon: ‘The good news and bad news about Hollywood is that they’re not political’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The obvious example is the grammar of "thee", "thou hast" etc. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z I knew my grammar was near, if not entirely, perfect. The all of “y’all”: On finally embracing my voice, country twang and everything 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z For this story, “fannish” essentially means adherence to a certain grammar of genre tropes — which it maintains in its revised form. Mystery Boxes and Budding Loves: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Sometimes our mental grammars don’t know what to do with unusual cases. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Hip-hop and dance are far more essential to the grammar of pop than rock has been for years — it is an atrophying relic, dying on the vine. Critic’s Notebook: Bastille and St. Lucia Take Different Musical Routes 2014-01-24T22:51:14Z I wouldn't have got that at grammar school. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z The comic grammar of the movie resides in the obviousness of everything we see him getting away with. Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-06T14:29:02Z They started playing guitars in the music department of Bangor grammar school, and when everyone else went to the cinema at weekends, they stayed at home writing songs. How Two Door Cinema Club became shock blockbusters 2010-12-16T22:55:01Z Bad grammar brings to mind Jarvis Cocker's advice to the slumming posh girl who wanted to do what common people do: "Pretend you never went to school". Why the fury at Lily Allen's Ivor Novello awards? 2010-05-21T17:12:00Z A keen eye for bad grammar ... academics at the University of Oxford. 'Illiterate' letter wins campaigning professors an award for bad grammar 2013-05-03T10:18:21Z Today, we’re kicking off a video series devoted to language in all its facets: grammar, syntax, vocabulary, spelling, usage, and punctuation. The Comma Queen: Series Première 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z I was offering a seemingly chaotic process that encouraged exploration and experimentation: extensive overwriting without attention to grammar or syntax in the early stages. Universities think I’m disposable, but my non-tenured status makes me a better teacher 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z If you are using your education to enforce class boundaries though grammar, then appreciate the chance to do so! “You are reading human words”: The case for typos in the age of spellcheck 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z She was Dorothea Benton Frank—known to her friends as Dottie—the author of best-selling books set in the Low Country of South Carolina, and she was eager to talk about grammar. My Friend Dorothea Benton Frank 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The accompanying one-hour audio CD features pronunciation, phrases, key grammar examples, vocabulary and a dialogue. 'Game of Thrones': How to speak Dothraki and influence people 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z These short pieces range about as widely as possible in tone and form, from ribald cracks to grammar lessons to ornate religious puzzles by the archbishop of Canterbury. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Volcano tourism, says renowned vulcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, is “a natural consequence of an active volcano”, and a type of geotourism – new grammar for holidays with a focus on conserving and promoting a sense of “place”. Shops under a volcano? The dangerous lure of Mount Etna 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Surely the question being asked is whether children should have separate grammar lessons, specially designed to put them off reading and writing for ever? Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Shakespeare was a grammar school graduate, the eldest son of a glove maker in declining fortune. Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z He’s distressed by Michael’s bloody video games, his constant swearing, his horrendous grammar. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “His discussion of late-term abortions showed no real understanding of how abortions work, no clear understanding of the basic biology of women’s bodies, and a very poor sense of grammar as well,” Oliver continued. John Oliver vows to stay in U.S., even if Donald Trump is elected 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z How useful are those grammar apps that underline sentences in academic papers? Grammar and Punctuation in Hiram, Ohio 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z He corrected their grammar and took dictation in Selma’s notebook. In Morocco, 44 hours of lingering in a small village leaves a big impression 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The author is a critic of what he calls Big Style: the kind of advice that fills most grammar books. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z David Kimball-Stanley, the press secretary for City Councilman Daniel Garodnick of New York, is not afraid to challenge people who unnecessarily correct his grammar. Circa Now: When the Manners Police Knock - Circa Now 2012-12-20T22:54:38Z But they're not backing down from their claim, with Franek saying, "I appreciate her response, but the question on the grammar still holds true." Taylor Swift hits back at Princeton Review's 'bad grammar' claim 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z English must be the only language to have developed a different grammar for the second person deity. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z Or in plain English: "the croaking of frogs put into grammar". Rachida Lamrabet: 'Literature helps when you are trying to form an identity' 2013-03-22T17:57:44Z It’s regular but its grammar is totally different from what most English speakers are familiar with. Does Klingon belong to everyone? “It’s a language — the whole point is to use it!” 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Frommer gave attendants tips on grammar and vocabulary and fielded any questions they had about the language. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z Though born in Schenectady, in New York state, Mackerras was brought up in Sydney, Australia, and went to Sydney grammar school. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z But as is true of most great dramatists, his syntax, locutions, rhythms and silences make up a sui generis grammar. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z But she agrees that changing pronouns mid-epistle is apt to be confusing, even if it is a violation of grammar, not etiquette. Perspective | Miss Manners: Inconsiderate houseguests unlikely to be invited back 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Separate lessons for grammar may not be required – 40 minutes on sentence construction would drive anyone mad – but I would welcome a strong emphasis on grammar. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z “The Dirty Dust” is a feat of translation: vigorous and fun, each line rendered with idiomatic aplomb, not a shadow of the Irish grammar remaining. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Cavendish, for all that she thought women of a "fantastical" turn of mind, suited to poetry and bad grammar, wrote some powerful polemic against women's lack of educational opportunities. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z Without punctuation/grammar the sentence makes no sense. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z It's almost as if the tortuous grammar were a mask, keeping self-revelation at bay. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z For a certain kind of obsessive magazine nerd, each one is spell book or codex, a key to the deep grammar of the craft. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z But we went to the local grammar school. Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z And that underscores the complexity of revisiting Kruger at this moment in image dissemination: Her strict-rule paste-up approach to interrogating groupthink has become so defining, so signature that her innovations are now core grammar. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Elderly private donors are not being replaced by “the first generation of college graduates that did not receive a solid arts education in grammar school.” Can arts organizations survive in the current economy? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “She was a person of exacting standards: she loved beautiful language and very exact grammar,” she added. Remembering Mary McCarthy’s Style 2012-10-19T22:52:01Z Robinson Jr attended what he later remembered as the highly competitive Raynes Park grammar school. Robert Robinson: tributes paid to doyen of the quiz show 2011-08-13T18:05:32Z He was always comfortable asking questions about what he was learning, whether that meant talking medicine with my father’s oncologist friend or quizzing our Guatemalan housekeeper on technicalities in Spanish grammar. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z Artifice as Armor in a Duel With Death Cynthia Nixon’s gaze has its own grammar. Theater Review: Cynthia Nixon in ?Wit,? at Manhattan Theater Club 2012-01-27T03:01:00Z Booker, in his bid to ingratiate women, ended up alienating the grammar lobby. Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But we also know that students from private schools and some elite grammar schools are often coached to get through the interviewing process. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z Explicit and overly abstract grammar teaching before the age of 11 is a bit like throwing seeds, that one hopes will turn into healthy plants, onto thawing early-spring ground yet to be ploughed. Rue the rules 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The inevitably limited grammar of factual television might explain why Boris and Rachel are both filmed driving a car while checking in the rear-view mirror. Those media-mad Johnsons 2013-03-25T14:14:00Z “Do not touch the McQueen dresses for no reasons,” another guard admonished wearily, grammar fallen victim to so many hours of repetition. Waiting Hours to See the McQueen Exhibit, in a Line Not Unlike a Runway 2011-08-08T00:30:27Z The challenge of translation is one reason — Finnish is a notoriously difficult language for nonnative speakers to learn, with gender-neutral pronouns and grammar. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z At the gym, the staff would practice slang expressions on me that they’d heard in rap songs, and I would smile and respond using proper grammar like the professional teacher I was. What I Learned From My Instagram Crush 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “The grammar of the filmic shot, and its ability to encapsulate so much information, was a pervasive influence.” Cindy Sherman Takes on Aging (Her Own) 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Grammar cops are annoying, but grammar private investigators? Do grammar police arrest the imagination? 2013-06-12T16:40:30Z I’ve been doing them since grammar school, then in summer stock. 'Spamilton' creator on loving Lin-Manuel Miranda and spoofing his musical at the same time 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Every two weeks or so, the sole speaker of a language dies, often taking with them millennia of culture condensed in their unique lexicon and grammar. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The differences in pronunciation and grammar between these dialects are subtle, but for a native speaker they carry meaningful information about identity, culture and religious affiliation. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z In the evening, a hundred-odd people of all ages came to the college library to hear the writer talk about her book on English grammar. Grammar and Punctuation in Hiram, Ohio 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The newest tenant, Amelia Lynd, an intellectual, elderly British woman, befriends Chino — giving him lessons in literature, grammar, philosophy and history, sharing her passion for dictionaries and making him word-hungry. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z After he amassed a small vocabulary, Mr. Peterson tested out basic grammar. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z Perhaps it can make people more likely to associate “grammar” not with drudgery, but with fascinating self-discovery. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The sound world created by the meshing of live and transformed sounds was strikingly fresh, and the grammar of the interactions between the two fascinating to follow. Kairos Quartett – review 2013-04-09T16:45:54Z What I’m trying to say here is that, as a freelance editor, when I’m hired to revise an essay, I show up to do more than just correct grammar, adjust sound, or create better readability. I'm an editor, not your mistress 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z With intentional misspellings of character names and poor grammar, he recasts phrases and plots from “Seinfeld” with news and trends in social media, celebrity drama and technology. A Show About Nothing Begets Something You Can Play Online 2014-05-04T21:24:06Z She was a working-class London grammar school child and an avid reader. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z A bravura long poem, "The Case of After", states the dilemma in terms of grammar. Pluto by Glyn Maxwell – review 2013-04-20T11:01:01Z A stickler for grammar, Michael decides that opening the box itself is at least permitted, and finds a small cache of letters, mostly unopened. Theater Review: ‘Red Dog Howls,’ by Alexander Dinelaris 2012-09-25T02:30:05Z Anna is captivated by grammar and particularly homonyms. In "Hausfrau," "Anna Karenina" Goes "Fifty Shades of Grey" 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Twitter’s epigrammatic styles change rapidly; grammar itself is a meme there. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “It used to be nerdy to discuss parts of speech outside of grammar class,” Baron, a professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois, writes. English’s Pronoun Problem Is Centuries Old 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z An earlier version of this article contained incorrect Italian grammar throughout. When in Venice, Eat Like a Venetian 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z No idea is more basic to English syntax and grammar. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Despite the extreme grammar, this book charmed my socks off. ‘Between You & Me,’ by Mary Norris 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z So not only am I a sore loser but I’m a stickler for grammar — two very horrible qualities. Confirm or Deny: David Duchovny 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z I generally found that tutors charging double digits — and who typically teach full-time — are better at explaining intricacies of grammar. Stuck stateside needn’t mean you can’t chat with foreign locals — and improve your language skills 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z She attended the Skinners' Company's grammar school for girls in Hackney, and then went on to Coventry Training College, where she did her teacher-training and discover- ed pottery for the first time. Suzanne Lang obituary 2011-03-28T17:19:13Z While his gloriously weird vocabulary and grammar may be the artifact of a second language, the architecture of his sentences is M’Diarmid’s alone. An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z His mother was the principal of the Roman Catholic grammar school of the Our Lady of Sorrows parish in Manhattan before becoming a stay-at-home parent. Nancy Seem, Andrew Shanahan 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The comic grammar of the movie resides in the sheer obviousness of everything they're getting away with in private. Behind the Candelabra – Cannes 2013 review 2013-05-21T08:25:41Z From interviewing caregivers to monitoring bodily functions, much of the day-to-day responsibilities involve the mundane grammar of getting them dressed, fed, medicated and bathed. This Life: The Father Is Child of the Man 2012-07-27T21:43:38Z Occasionally, some of the more erudite members will publicly correct Bob’s grammar. From Harvard to webcam girl 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z It’s a dress code, a day-to-day ethic, a grammar of speaking and being; it’s corporate culture, and whether or not we want it to, it runs the world. White guilt and “The Good Wife”: When good intentions about corporate diversity fall painfully short 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Although Bigelow’s recent films can be enjoyed as visceral mainstream entertainment, they’re also sophisticated, intellectually grounded works that manage to disassemble cinematic grammar and reconstitute it in startling, even revolutionary ways. Perspective | With ‘Detroit,’ Kathryn Bigelow refines an aesthetic grounded in equal parts theory and reality 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Emily Mann directs the production, which should feature trademark Albee themes like doubling of identity and an intense focus on language, right down to the details of grammar. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z It is bad grammar, and the feelings of those who don't care that it is are no more important than the feelings of those who do care. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The breadwinner feels pressure to bring in more dough 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The untitled story takes up about 14 pages of the notebook, which also includes bits of poetry and notes on grammar, including rules for capitalization and punctuation. Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z A small but vocal subculture has emerged on of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. On the Twitter Patrol 2010-04-28T16:26:00Z After Sunday’s episode of reality TV drama 90 Day Fiancé, people were left with an important question: is it ever OK to correct someone’s grammar? Mind your language: is it ever OK to correct someone's grammar? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Why try to craft a well-reasoned argument, using facts and grammar, when the real way to influence how a person feels is a well-aimed “Kill it before it lays eggs,” or the classic “Your stupid”? Does reading the comments affect your judgment? 2013-03-04T21:00:00Z Disillusioned with education after a miserable time at grammar school, Gleitzman had stopped reading books when he hit 14 and discovered girls, then quit school after O-Levels. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z I repeat my belief that grammar is good for the grey matter, not to mention the beauty of English prose. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Word geeks will especially enjoy an anecdote about a drunken teenage Martinez's New Year's Eve in the slammer, where he rants at his jailers about the poor grammar on his arrest report. 'Boy Kings of Texas': a tough, tender tale of growing up in the barrio 2012-08-15T18:54:04Z “It’s a really different grammar to the novel.” Coming Soon to a Stage Near You: Yesteryear’s Movies 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Spielberg, a consummate showman and fluent storyteller, was steeped in the middlebrow movie grammar he grew up with, reimagining those reassuringly familiar structures to create the fairy tales and myths of a new generation. Perspective | The Stevens — Soderbergh and Spielberg — defined late-20th-century film. Can they agree on its 21st-century future? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z By dismantling language, she identified its obscuring methods and offered an alternative, surpassing its chaos with her own, freer grammar. New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Balich said he wanted “to put the grammar of the big Olympics at the service of the Sistine Chapel, which is one of the milestones of humanity.” Bringing the Sistine Chapel to Life, With the Vatican’s Blessing 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The setting is the coastal village of Rye, where young Beatrice Nash has been hired to teach Latin at the local grammar school. A novel to cure your ‘Downton Abbey’ withdrawal: ‘The Summer Before the War’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z He’s also rustic, a tumbleweed of bad grammar and tasteless analogies. Modern Love: His Promise Would Not Be Denied 2014-04-04T01:03:11Z To tackle the drived/drove question, Mr. Aiden and Mr. Michel assigned two undergraduates to read every textbook on historical English grammar, compile a list of irregular verbs and follow their fortunes through the centuries. Books of The Times: ‘Uncharted,’ by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel 2013-12-24T20:44:07Z He went to school at Carr Manor primary, St Matthew's middle school and Leeds grammar before Cambridge university and a successful career in theatre. Fond farewell to Ian Brown at the West Yorkshire Playhouse as James Brining's era begins 2012-06-27T17:00:00Z The family moved to the village of Moulton in 2001, when Luke was offered a place at a nearby grammar school. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Even Day acknowledged that "whom" is whistling past the grammar graveyard. Hallmark drives another nail in coffin of dying pronoun 'whom' 2012-09-07T00:09:03Z “Breaking into a song is expressing a feeling in a way that normal movie grammar or normal reality wouldn’t let you,” he said. ‘La La Land’: How one of the best movies of the year almost didn’t get made 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z But, after drawing acclaim for her posts about grammar and punctuation on The New Yorker’s website, she decided to write a book that would marry her life story to her life’s work. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z “She uses the sketchbook idea as a way to change the grammar and syntax of the comics page,” he said in a recent phone interview. First, Emil Ferris Was Paralyzed. Then Her Book Got Lost at Sea. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z When he left Stockton grammar school, he announced that he wanted to be a journalist. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z I read it in the first English translation, from 1933, with the German version alongside, online, and a crib of graduate-school German grammar nearby. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Fleabag flashes straight back: “Every cloud …” Not since Ricky Gervais created The Office has a newcomer appeared and rewritten the grammar of television comedy overnight. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: ‘I felt strongly there was no such thing as a slut’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z And this oddity was symbolic of how the coalition is going to disrupt the visual grammar of political television. Question Time 2010-05-13T07:00:00Z Working with language experts and other tribal members, Baird developed a dictionary of Wampanoag and a grammar guide based on historical documents and personal diaries written in Wampanoag. Native American tribe that shared first Thanksgiving meal trying to revive its language 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Because linguists spend their careers trying to tease out what people actually do say and why, they get cross when people equate “grammar” with a host of rules that most people don’t actually observe. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z No surprise there, but much needed in the face of Trump’s serial abuses of grammar and sense. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Just imagine the look on most publishers’ faces if a drama critic threatened to quit over a matter of grammar. | 'What the Public Wants': Vintage Comedy Recounts Old-New Tale of Journalism 2011-01-30T22:30:35Z Balcon was the son of South African emigres; he was Jewish; he was a grammar school boy from Birmingham. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z Pop lyrics are a great source of bad grammar. This SAT Practice Question Has Taylor Swift Totally Stumped 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Yankovic's song takes aim at people who make errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. Got writer's block? Lin-Manuel Miranda has a playlist for you 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Kai, Douglass, it seems my grammar has become too heavy for you. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z But other people’s mental grammars see “greenlight” as a form of the verb “to light”, an existing irregular verb with the past tense “lit”; hence “greenlit”. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z When the time came to leave primary school and move on to grammar school I knew I had to solve the problem or go down fighting. Stammering: lost for words 2011-01-09T20:29:00Z I have a friend – well, a "friend" – who, every 4 March, marches forth into a variety of local stores with a black marker and corrects the signage in the name of "good grammar". A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Asked what was harder, economics or German grammar, he laughed. Berlin’s Museum Tours in Arabic Forge a Bridge to Refugees 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z And, in a fascinating evolution, outrage is increasingly being channeled through the technologically driven grammar of sound, image and movement. ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ N.W.A. and the new vernacular of protest 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z There are hidden rules not just in grammar, but at every level of language production. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z His taboo-breaking starts with grammar and diction and extends to an unsentimental depiction of behavioural and moral filth: he's as troubling to mainstream Arabic literary culture as Joyce once was to the west. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z Tom Stoppard: "I wanted to call the play 'Exit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern', but for the bad grammar – 'Exeunt R and G' I didn't like as a title, so settled for 'are dead'." Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction 2013-05-20T10:58:00Z The therapist works to understand an individual’s personal psychological grammar – to help the person take the risk of unlearning and then learning anew, finding ways to not be in so much hurt. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Virtually every pop songwriter employs them today, but in a comedy song arguing for traditional grammar, they dull the precision of the wit. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The words, the grammar, the syntax are a chisel that shapes our thought. Elena Ferrante: ‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z None of this is particularly subtle, but the film’s swell of filial hatred communicates through fine acting and Ercan Ozkan’s eloquent photography, a grammar of light that cycles from gray to taupe to eau-de-nil. | 'Toll Booth': ?Toll Booth? Directed by Tolga Karacelik ? Review 2012-01-11T23:05:35Z But these were days when photography’s status as a visual art was still in question, and Avedon, perpetually anxious about his credibility and legitimacy, felt only a new visual grammar could meet the times head-on. Avedon at Large 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z When misused – look at Facebook – it can make one long for the days when bad grammar was punished with a metre rule on the bum rather than an "unlike". From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011-01-15T00:07:06Z They are seeking my input on the content, not the grammar. Perspective | Miss Manners: If asked to edit something, go ahead and edit it 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z I never quite fitted into my Belfast grammar school. My parents sent me to Russia for a month, aged 13 – never again 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Headey, who speaks a kind of metropolitan RP spiced up with Yorkshire vowels, cockney glottal stops and Californian grammar, swears liberally and enthusiastically. Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’ 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Pip colluded with a governess to coach her secretly for the entrance examination for Penzance county girls' grammar school. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z “Great artists, I believe, invent a language and a grammar,” he said. Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The paradox at the center of the poem is exposed in a pared-down, intentionally simple grammar which is the very opposite of Ashbery’s sprawling informality. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z It’s the movie in which the spirit of Obi-Wan tells Luke to pursue his great destiny by training under the Jedi master Yoda, whose eccentric grammar became one of the saga’s most endearing features. Every Star Wars film – ranked! 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z She uses various vocal tricks to capture the whirring, clicking sounds J. Lo makes — as well as his eccentric grammar and accent — and seamlessly works them into the narrative. Corner: Let's hear it for these winning audiobooks 2011-04-13T20:22:06Z The singer-songwriter struck back at the publisher after one of their test prep guides used lyrics from her hit song "Fifteen" as an example of bad grammar by pop singers. Taylor Swift hits back at Princeton Review's 'bad grammar' claim 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Early sexualization of young girls and grammar school kids being overly concerned with brands are just two of the innumerable specific elements of the much-bemoaned "Kids Getting Older Younger" trend that are widely written about. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z There should be more analytical detail about Colonial Revival here, as in the generally helpful companion book; it would help to be patiently shown the character of that grammar, tracing its allusions and its transformations. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z But if you correct someone’s grammar in the middle of an argument, even if you are in any of the above positions, you are most likely wrong. Mind your language: is it ever OK to correct someone's grammar? 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Apatow does not help her write these tweets, Maude said, but her parents sometimes correct her grammar and vet posts that she fears may offend someone. Maude Apatow Is Growing Up Writing 2012-08-24T22:19:51Z But grammar is the theme of “Sen•tence,” a collection of sketches in word, movement and music by the longtime dance comedian Claire Porter. Dance Review: Claire Porter at Joe’s Pub 2014-04-30T20:47:09Z He also positions himself as an intellectual lodestar, doling out lectures on language and grammar that torment Jo in later life with their indelibility. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z I had an intense, creative imagination, but I'm bad at grammar, I was never good at school. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z This approach simply smacks of indolence by teachers who are putting grammar in the "too hard" basket. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Carol” Like “Brooklyn,” this portrait of a shop girl in 1950s New York is suffused with the production values and visual grammar of a delicious melodrama of the era. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z He springs to life mainly when someone strays from traditional grammar within his hearing. Review | Good grammar is essential to the D.C. judicial history lesson that is ‘Trying’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Assuming “interviewing very soon” means … well, very soon, I picture an interaction like so: “Denise, you’re terrific, but your grammar stinks. Now, get into that interview room and knock ’em dead!” Correcting a Co-Worker’s Grammar: Helpful or Hurtful? 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z He was a stickler where grammar was concerned, and I am grateful to him now that he paid so much attention to the construction of sentences. Once upon a life: Paul Bailey 2011-01-09T00:05:19Z “For this film, basically the overall film grammar is very subjective,” he said. The Movie Is Opening Wide. The Screen Is Changing Shape. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z According to the foreword, the rewrite allowed her to correct some errors that always bothered her and to re-edit the piece for grammar and word choice issues. New 'Twilight' Reboot Swaps Characters' Genders 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z On a BBC radio interview, the presenter read aloud a listeners' text: "Try getting someone who can speak correctly if you're going to talk about grammar." Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z It is said that you should never ask a linguist for advice on grammar because the answer will always start with, “Well, it depends,” and everything after that will leave you more confused than before. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. The new teacher guessed that the course’s popularity stemmed in part from a desperation to learn the grammar and syntax that permissive English teachers had ignored. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z A discussion of grammar in contemporary society -- why it's rarely taught, what should be taught, what students hunger for, and the real-world expectations of proper grammar usage. For grammar geeks: 'Grammar Revolution' the documentary 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The years piled up, and as our children grew, Elie and I shifted from conversations about preschool to grammar school to high school. As He Cut My Hair, I Wept 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Mitchell, wrote one critic, could “achieve the same effects with the grammar of hard facts that Dickens achieved with the rhetoric of imagination.” The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In the grammar of Islamophobia, the future is tense.” “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Anyway, Charlie, if they lose all sight of grammar, they will never want to buy your books, and that would be a pity. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z There is a Valyrian grammar, a dictionary containing thousands of words, and even separate dialects for the various Valyrian-descended cultures that exist in the show. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z In other words, no one speaks "standard English"; rather, it is an imagined way of using language that exists only in grammar and style books. Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z In fact, saying things like: “What are you talking about?” is deeply embedded in the grammar of English. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s like listening to Shakespeare, it really is . . . the grammar, the syntax, all those things. After Scalia’s death, and the election, Edward Gero reflects on his role in ‘The Originalist’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z I hoped there were better things somewhere else, because it was a very ignorant, close-minded town, the kind of place that if you spoke with proper grammar they made fun of you. Lydia Loveless: Defiance on the farm 2011-11-22T17:10:00Z The program uses the lyrics as a vehicle to teach grammar and vocabulary words and phrases, as well as sharpen listening and comprehension skills. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Well, when I first went to grammar school I liked W. H. Auden. Johnny Marr returns: “I was an 18-year-old guitar player … I wanted to be modern” 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z The nails are long and the grammar is severely compromised. Critic?s Notebook: Marriage With Challenges 2011-07-08T22:55:49Z “My work, I hope, is a poetic response to that experience, and an attempt to pull apart the language and grammar of pictures.” Hillary Clinton, Psy, and More Star in Julia Wachtel’s Latest Show 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z I looked for handsome faces, some semblance of professional success, and proper grammar/punctuation. I’m the woman you met on Ashley Madison: How the rush of infidelity led to affairs online 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Immersing himself in medieval manuals of Latin rhetoric and grammar, and closely examining letters and speeches, Professor Witt examined two powerful currents in the development of modern ideas about language and history. Ronald G. Witt, Who Gave the Renaissance a New Birthdate, Dies at 84 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just the pictorial grammar; it was also Hokusai’s bourgeois sensibility, his attention to theater and fashion and women of the night. How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Shakespeare learned his farcical grammar from studying Plautus at school. The Troubies turn an ancient Roman comedy into a modern 'Haunted House Party' 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z "He used extremely poor grammar deliberately," said Logsdon, a retired University of Tulsa professor. 100 years after singer Guthrie's birth, this land is his 2012-07-14T14:42:51Z “I don’t think Henry James had creative writing lessons, but he read and he knew the grammar, and so he set off on a journey with it.” A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Or better yet, watch the montage about montages in "Team America: World Police" -- a gag reel that doubles as a lesson in film grammar. How to make the perfect movie montage 2011-06-03T23:28:00Z Her book’s almost political thesis—the more voices, the better—rebukes both the élitism of traditional grammar snobs and the cliquishness of, say, Tumblr. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z It covers grammar, because all that texting is causing us to become a country of unemployable illiterates. At 66, Dave Barry still hasn’t figured out women 2014-03-05T22:29:13Z The school pack included a proposed timetable: hours of comprehension, grammar, arithmetic and verbal reasoning with a bit of RE or geography in the afternoon for light relief. 'What I got wrong was trying to be a teacher': how to last the distance at home schooling 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z I would like to challenge every word of that sentence — on Twitter, where grammar goes to die. Affairs to Remember: Nora Ephron’s Classic Rom-Coms 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Ironically, the erstwhile fact-checker sees an inattention to detail as the gulf between himself and his followers, who type faster but have zero grasp of grammar or nuance. Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Her debut sparkles with passion, warmth, and charm, a collage of memoir, grammar guide, and ode to language, its tools and accoutrements—from the just-so placement of commas to the search for the worthiest pencil. New Yorker copyeditor dishes on the wacky side of her (quite dignified) job: “One feels so silly looking up [profanity]” 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The grammar is so complicated that it can take 15 minutes or more to figure out how to conjugate and pronounce a single sentence, so it’s not exactly marketable. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z As Knight says, they “couldn’t keep a theme going. Couldn’t even keep the grammar going.” The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The elite club was founded in 1635 by Cardinal de Richelieu to help centralize France by unifying its language and grammar. Dany Laferrière, a Guardian of French, Joins the Académie Française 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Pinker calls this offense “a schoolteacher rule” that is “a product of the usual three confusions: English with Latin, informal style with incorrect grammar, and syntax with semantics.” Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z We'd been at High Moor Primary together before we'd gone to the grammar school and he knew I wasn't good at art. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z The reality is that many of the bits of grammar that we think of as wrong are actually just a matter of preference. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z You emphasize that knowledge of grammar is important. Q&A with Steven Pinker, author of ‘The Sense of Style’ “In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.” Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z Now 14, he attends a grammar school with support. My son was diagnosed with autism at five. Did he inherit it from my misunderstood mother? 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z CH: Yes, we British once ruled the world with our firm grasp of grammar, applying its rules to oppress and exploit the ungrammared dusky hordes. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Ethan wants to go to a grammar school, too, so he's been doing some practice 11-plus exams. TV Review: This Is England '86 and The Big School Lottery 2010-09-07T22:03:00Z Why do people get angry at being corrected, calling others the "grammar police?" Perspective | Miss Manners: I’m educating these idiots, but they just think I’m rude! 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z A fat, brainy kid who got beat up in grammar school, Lipsyte majored in English at Columbia University and wanted to be a novelist. Former New York Times sportswriter pens memoir 2011-05-02T11:35:11Z My vocabulary is extensive, my command of grammar and syntax almost without error. Perspective | How do you pronounce the word ‘what’? 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Reading the poem in the original spelling, we can see English words and grammar in their infancy, still not quite ready to grow up and settle down. Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z Believe me, you cannot shame a person into good grammar. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Born in South Shields just before the second world war, Scott is a self-made man and non-believer, who progressed from grammar school to art college and so to Soho. Ridley Scott on making blockbusters: ‘It is bloody brain surgery!’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Her mother, a longtime grammar schoolteacher in New Jersey and Oklahoma, last taught remedial reading at Jenks High School in Tulsa. Caroline Marra, Benjamin Hemani 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z "Here is a surprise," one wrote, with more feeling than attention to spelling and grammar. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Making Room for the Women 2012-12-25T15:26:30Z By way of a scholarship to a local grammar school in Hackney, Yudkin made it to Cambridge. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As grammar and phonics shifted through time, words that originally began with "n" were modified and adjusted. What the heck is a "napron"? The linguistic history of the kitchen's most stylish accessory 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z On a grammar/usage note - when someone writes something ungrammatical, is the NYT obliged to use the incorrect spelling when it quotes them? When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Alongside some of her best-known work with rough-hewn concrete and vividly painted metal, here she's created a new series experimenting with the simple grammar of a base, support and attachment. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z That one joke is this: Suppose the inbred redneck rubes — with their penchant for chewin' tobacco, bad dentistry, worse grammar and chain saws — were merely innocent bystanders. 'Tucker & Dale vs. Evil': Comedy isn't a killer 2011-09-29T20:01:07Z "Arabic did not affect the grammar of the Spanish, but its political presence had important historical effects that helped determine the nature of Spanish." The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z This month brings two major revivals of Alan Bennett's hit play, set among the sixth-form boys at a northern grammar school in the 1980s. Sherlock Holmes, The History Boys, Race: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-18T05:00:15Z Madison Marlow and Taylor Dye, both 19, were in grammar school eight years ago. At the Fillmore, Maddie & Tae show what country girls are really like 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Instead, as most linguists only too ruefully admit, upon confessing their profession at cocktail parties they tend to be told: “Oops, better watch my grammar around you.” Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Redeker and others who emphasize Europe’s Greco-Roman past are upset that this year Latin and Greek, which are electives, were changed to focus more on ancient civilizations and less on grammar. Joan of Arc’s Shaky Pedestal: France Battles Over Its Identity at School 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z By midseason, though, he barely appeared to be paying attention, his flights of grammar more frustrating than novel. Critic's Notebook: The ?Idol? Season: Sharper, With More Stars 2011-05-26T16:53:31Z Major bits of grammar—like the existence of a subjunctive—are usually a lot more visible than this. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Q. What advice is a grammar pedant not likely to listen to? Style Invitational: Poems of the year(s)—‘time-travel’ with Merriam-Webster 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z He left the local grammar school garlanded with prizes, and went to Oxford with an open scholarship to study classics. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Nothing, but nothing—profanity, transgender pronouns, apostrophe abuse—excites the passion of grammar geeks more than the serial, or Oxford, comma. A Few Words About That Ten-Million-Dollar Serial Comma 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z After grammar school, he went to Oxford University where he read law. Q&A: Ken Loach 2012-06-01T21:09:01Z From Vilnius, Ray and I traveled as honorary guests to Šukoniai, the northern town where our grandfather was born, to see the grammar school named after him. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Ducournau’s “cannibal horror film” is as much body horror as it is black comedy and coming-of-age drama, and it uses the cinematic grammar of all three. Raw director Julia Ducournau on how to make a horror film as creepy as possible 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z When the baby scores a hit, the caregiver responds with enthusiasm and repetition, etching in the brain the fundamentals of speech and grammar. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z But there was something about telling a story that I found liberating within the otherwise smothering universe of spelling and grammar. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z They didn't know whether to go after the religious debate or the grammar. Confessions of an internet troll 2012-11-09T15:00:00Z In the years since, technology has advanced, but the basic grammar of the genre remains the same. Review: ‘Blair Witch’: Don’t Go Back Into the Woods 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z He wrote in his spare time during 11 years teaching English in grammar schools in the West Midlands. Thriller writer Craig Thomas dies 2011-04-08T13:05:23Z You need the grammar — how the things built up into words relate to each other. Does Klingon belong to everyone? “It’s a language — the whole point is to use it!” 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z He was the film-maker who invented not merely a genre, but a whole grammar of can-do, low-budget American independent film-making. George A Romero: the zombie master whose ideas infected American cinema 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Her godparents keep their feedback focused on clarity, accessibility, grammar and spelling. At 15, Daniela Shia-Sevilla’s writing has already wowed the literary community 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Calling “The Imperfectionists” hilarious yet heartbreaking might even pass muster with the grammar czar at the novel’s unnamed newspaper, and that guy hates exaggeration. Books of The Times: ?The Imperfectionists? by Tom Rachman 2010-05-05T22:48:00Z It wasn’t easy to balance the grammatical and the personal, but I felt both were essential, so I wove grammar and memoir together, sentence by sentence. What can we learn from translations of the Bible? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z When he started advanced Arabic classes in the next stage of his military training, he found himself once again slogging through vocabulary lists and grammar rules. What’s the secret to learning a second language? 2012-10-27T12:30:00Z Athough the performers try to speak with spontaneity and ease, the complicated rhythm and grammar get in their way, often making them sound stilted. Highly engaging low farce in 'The Heir Apparent' at ICT 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Here he is a pedantic Englishman, who corrects everyone's grammar, overrides other detectives, and is disparaging to women and men. Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: what is behind the detective’s appeal? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z They were just merciless in terms of grammar and syntax and spelling, which was incredibly helpful later. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z He won a scholarship to attend one of Barbados’s three grammar schools, where an English teacher, Frank Collymore, who also edited the island’s leading literary magazine, introduced him to writing. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Collaborations like these may become less surprising, especially as dance music weaves its way into the grammar of American pop. Critic’s Notebook: Growlers Finding a Refuge in Dance 2014-04-23T21:55:54Z Hotschnig's writing, in print, follows the conventions of grammar and typography and ... Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig- review 2011-08-25T09:00:02Z In the second stanza, a slightly dislocated, Latinate grammar floats the poem towards symbolism. Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z He is brilliant at showing the development of film language: the grammar of framing, cutting and illumination that emerged with remarkable rapidity in the first decades of the 20th century. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Story of Film: An Odyssey,? by Mark Cousins, at MoMA 2012-01-31T23:43:58Z McQueen’s visual grammar often entails staging a violent sequence with blunt, brutal verisimilitude, then lingering on the aftermath in queasy silence. Perspective | In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Instead, I corrected his spelling and grammar with a red pen, finding some satisfaction in that. Cropped Out of My Own Fantasy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z His world, called Giant Country, consists of shimmering upside-down trees, charmingly bad grammar and, as with any good fantastical land, some grumpy villains intent on creating some problems for the feisty little mortal. The New Trailer for 'The BFG' Offers a First Glimpse of Giant Country 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Charles was born in 1723, studied at the University of Copenhagen, and was the author of English-language grammars and textbooks for Danish speakers, and an "Essay on the Excellency and Style of the English Tongue". History in the making: a Roman map… and an 18th-century hoax 2013-07-19T07:30:01Z But there is a strain of wishful thinking in the idea that neologisms, revamped grammars, could effect better living. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The grammar of difficult contact only works when the inconvenience is danger or remoteness, rather than the inconvenience of catching a taxi to the studios. TV matters: Skype and satellite links 2011-08-10T20:30:01Z Sign language is more than merely hand signs, but complex languages with grammar that involves facial expressions, body movements, different dialects and regional accents. How one young actor is using American Sign Language in animation 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Visit the grammar school attended by Wordsworth and then take in the Beatrix Potter Gallery, where her original artwork is on display in a 17th-century house. Follow Beatrix Potter through England’s lovely Lake District 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The important words all land on the right beat; the grammar is never distorted to squeeze over a melody. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z He went to the local grammar school and joined the Royal Artillery towards the end of the second world war. Paul Foote obituary 2011-04-05T17:45:40Z One major difference between this and a Quentin Tarantino film is that Mr. Tarantino is steeped in the grammar of film, while elements of Mr. Saine’s movie seem modeled after commercials and music videos. Movie Review: ‘Bounty Killer,’ Directed by Henry Saine 2013-09-06T02:29:42Z In “Graveyard Clay,” prepositions—a prominent feature of Gaelic grammar—pile up: The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Anyway, not long after I'd started at the grammar school they took the old folk on an outing to Blackpool to see the illuminations which meant my mum staying away. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z “Stories graves,” he scolds in the splintered grammar that characterizes many of the tales in this volume. John Edgar Wideman’s Art of Storytelling 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z “It’s a dilemma for us, as it is, I think, for everyone,” said Mary Norris, a copy editor and grammar authority at The New Yorker. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z By parroting the grammar of technical imagery, without actually achieving any technical goals, their photos seem to loosen technology’s moorings. Photography’s Delightful Obsessives 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Sometimes the rushed nature of emails creates sentences that are beautiful precisely because of the poor punctuation, spelling and grammar that email encourages. What You Can Learn By Reading Lena Dunham’s Email 2013-11-11T10:45:24Z She knew he did, of course, but her point was that the grammar and technique of his dancing were means to an end, which was more concerned with aspects of gesture and drama. Dance Review | Liz Gerring Dance Company: At Baryshnikov Center, Bringing the Outdoors In 2010-03-13T00:04:00Z Self-consciousness about her accent and her English grammar meant she rarely wrote anything on her own. Trump played tough with Putin when cameras were around, but a new book details his insecurities 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Bad grammar or spelling doesn’t make us laugh; that just makes us weary. Style Invitational Week 1081: It’s the stupidity, stupid — be a dumb-ask Over the next few summers, she says, she devoted each day’s lunch hour to grammar exercises and to learning 10 new words. Books of The Times: ‘My Beloved World,’ a Memoir by Sonia Sotomayor 2013-01-21T23:11:43Z I also don't necessarily want to engage with someone who triumphantly nitpicks someone else's grammar. I'm reading the comments again, after swearing them off 7 years ago 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z As to the erudition, with Wallace it was literature, maths and grammar. Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan - review 2012-07-26T07:00:06Z I learned about double E. I learned about grammar. Pamela Adlon Fuels Her Hectic Life With Fosse and ‘Fame’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z That is, it synthesizes a wide range of current thinking from recent books about grammar, branding, cognitive science and Web theory. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z Every stereotype from the grammar of film is here. Skyfail: why the new Bond villain perpetuates mental health stigma 2012-11-12T08:30:03Z Spelling and grammar, apparently, will be more arbitrary in the post-catastrophe world, but squirrels will be every bit as tasty as they are now. Critic?s Notebook: Gutting a Porcupine and Other Tips for the Apocalypse 2010-12-29T20:22:17Z A paleontologist, he obsesses over dinosaurs, grammar and documentaries. A Viewing Guide for the 'Friends' Newbie 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z I mean, if somebody writes a song that I want to sing and they’ve put something in it with bad grammar, I can’t sing it. God is key to Gloria Gaynor’s survival, in life and music 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z For months she roamed the real American countryside destroying the rules of politics and grammar. “Old man McCain tried to stop her but it was too late”: Here is the legend of Sarah Palin 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Panels A, B and C serve as a preliminary guide — sort of — laying out the project’s grammar or “syntax.” This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Violence is its grammar and misery its context as Billy faces the unthinkable horrors of a place where savagery rules and the dead lie alongside the living. Review: ‘A Prayer Before Dawn’ Drops a British Boxer Into a Thai Prison 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It was at Lincoln School, their grammar school. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z If you winced, or for that matter hurled, at the use of less instead of fewer, you may be a careful reader, a grammar snob — or Weird Al Yankovic. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z She has strong opinions about what is right and wrong in grammar and punctuation. The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z His accent is heavy, but his English is excellent, with a very Germanic meticulousness regarding grammar and syntax. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Terminator Genisys: ‘I’ll be taking a beating or two’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The grammar could be figured out at a later stage. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The “traditional book culture,” as he put it in “The Two Latin Cultures,” one nourished in cathedrals and monasteries, began to rely on classical models in teaching grammar. Ronald G. Witt, Who Gave the Renaissance a New Birthdate, Dies at 84 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Millions of us learned about legislative procedures through “I’m Just a Bill,” math through “Three Is a Magic Number” and grammar through “Conjunction Junction.” One nation, in all its flavors, captured on these pages 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z An algorithm will even look at things such as your grammar and spelling. Apptitude: Tired of Match.com and OkCupid? Here are apps that offer a different way to rate a potential date 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Thanks to his father’s determination that David not follow him into the coal mines, he was educated at a prestigious local grammar school and, it seemed, was destined to become a teacher. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z “I’m an academic linguist. I know the grammar very, very well but when it comes to speaking stuff off the cuff – no, I really need practice.” Do you you speak High Valyrian? Duolingo launches Game of Thrones language app 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z He was educated at Manchester grammar school and at commercial college and art school in Liverpool. Tony Banfield obituary 2010-07-27T17:31:00Z Jibade-Khalil Huffman started off as a poet and he uses images in his video installations as a sort of grammar, composing phrases, sentences and paragraphs with found or filmed footage. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Hey said that during preparations for “Jungle Book,” the first step for him was to learn what he called “Wilson’s grammar,” which is often taught by assistant stagers. At 80, Robert Wilson Holds On to a Singular Vision for the Stage 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “The gesture is the vocabulary and the choreography is the grammar,” Heitmann explained, adding that her choreography is meant to convey “a feeling of melancholy.” Turning the Gestures of Everyday Life Into Art 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “I let my body discover, little by little, its own grammar of movement — often jerky, spastic, and strangely formal.” Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z Like Fry, Loriot was an admirer of his native language, a stickler for grammar and a collector of rare coinages. Why Loriot gets lost in translation 2011-08-25T14:45:25Z Dreyer is a VP and copy chief at Random House, not to mention the unofficial language guru on Twitter, where he dispenses grammar bon mots such as: “Only godless savages eschew the series comma.” What books to read in January 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z So, a 22 year old with questionable grammar skills managed to start a company while in college but has to beg for sex on the Internet. Coachella 2015: Are Kanye West tix, iPhones worth wristband in trade? 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Strunk and White had “a tenuous grasp of grammar,” and George Orwell contradicted himself. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Classics - the study of the languages, society and history of ancient Greece and Rome - was part of the grammar school curriculum. Classic tales 2010-04-07T08:34:00Z Soon after, in 1982, he made his first “credible” piece, he said, a French grammar book whose pages he inked with scribbles, inspired by the diaries of Jo Hopper, Edward’s wife. Andrew Masullo Paints His Way to Whitney Biennial 2012-03-25T04:07:06Z He is pioneer, dreamer, everyman, and his life among the trees, forest fires and bawdy towns speaks both of paradise and apocalypse, all told with Johnson's maverick approach to grammar and structure. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z But that true grit, along with a broiling sense of injustice fostered during his schooldays at a Jesuit grammar, among other places, informs his best work. American Dream 2010-11-20T06:45:00Z In his long pre-war sojourns in Moscow he presumably absorbed Soviet innovations in the grammar of film and the cinematic sculpting of a leadership cult. Yugoslavia, paradise on earth, just a shame about the films 2012-11-16T14:00:02Z Planet Word is a modestly scaled museum devoted to a huge subject: the way we learn, use and manipulate the words and grammar that define us. Review | Planet Word, a new museum devoted to language, is a high-tech, feel-good experience 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Lee Hall Alan and I were educated at the Kingston high school, Hull, then a grammar school. Appreciations: Alan Plater obituary 2010-06-27T17:14:00Z Picture books, comic books, e-books, anything with the printed word exposes your child to new vocabulary words and reinforces grammar and syntax knowledge. When should a child outgrow picture books? 2011-02-01T16:50:04Z He went to Blackpool grammar school, but his father's early death precluded his going to university. Anthony North 2012-08-16T15:45:49Z Yet while chiding extreme libertarianism, Selbourne veers dangerously close to Comstockery in his tsk-tsking of noise that “masquerades as music,” gender fluidity, sperm banks, bad grammar, video plagiarists and other presumed vices. Three Authors Consider Contemporary Politics, Anxiously 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z As much as the idea of Elbow succumbing to excess through grammar appeals, the title actually comes from a line in the lovely first song to be released online from Build A Rocket. From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011-01-15T00:07:06Z A specially execrable example was the 1970s song It's No Longer I that Liveth, but Christ that Liveth in Me, showing that those who couldn't manage the grammar felt compelled to use it. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z After writing a Why-Oh-Why piece on the need for correct grammar, Wallace Arnold received a letter from the chairman of the government's new Good English Campaign, Sir Trevor McDonald, asking him to join them. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z Gregerson’s syntax, unfolding toward its tragic ends, performs the articulated work that other poets might do with pure sounds: Few living poets make English grammar do so much so well. A Poet Looks at the End of the World, and Reaches for Hope 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z To Dr. Everett, Pirahã was a clear case of culture shaping grammar — an impossibility according to the theory of universal grammar. A New Book and Film About Rare Amazonian Language 2012-03-21T22:17:15Z “It’s about finding a new grammar for a form we love.” Give them a hand! Musicals stage a comeback. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction,” the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, in 1839. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Dear Miss Manners: Why is it bad manners to correct someone's grammar? Perspective | Miss Manners: I’m educating these idiots, but they just think I’m rude! 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z White worried of another story that it had "too much despair and too little grammar for the kids". The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z The comedian walked through the normal morning everyone had standing behind current Majority Leader and casual grammar user Kevin McCarthy’s bid for Speaker, until everything changed. Seth Meyers devastates Kevin McCarthy and House GOP: “Whoever does get that job is going to hate it, because it’s the worst job on earth” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Also like Latin, it’s a free-word-order language, so its grammar can be hard to parse. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z Some of the sites include poor spelling, grammar, images and inconsistent fonts. Knockoff perfume, cosmetics may contain arsenic, rat poison, detectives warn 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Scholars immediately questioned the authenticity of the fragment, saying, for instance, that the grammar on it was unconvincing. Show on Jesus' wife papyrus delayed amid doubts 2012-10-02T12:15:13Z Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional — what a cranky guy would call correct — grammar. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z His mother was a guidance counselor at the Sheridan School, a grammar school in Washington, and his father was an analyst at Fannie Mae, also in Washington. Sarah Schrag, William Adler 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network offers a variety of bite-size service shows with advice on topics like grammar, parenting and productivity. 7 Podcasts for a Healthier Mind and Body 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Vernon and his collaborators use it as a trigger for forced errors that become musical grammar. Review: With ‘22, a Million,’ Bon Iver Beats a Retreat to Even Quieter Reinvention 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z When taken to task by contemporaries for both her grammar and spelling, she declared it was "against Nature for a woman to spell right." Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z What’s the point of grammar and style if violating all of their writs might win you the Presidency? The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In his current tour, “Lost in Translation,” he describes being on the receiving end of a racial slur in Lexington, Ky., but what really offended him was the grammar. Trevor Noah, Next ‘Daily Show’ Host,’ Aggressively Sunny in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The anonymous author, whose strong suit was not spelling or grammar, was probably paid by madams to promote certain houses; after all, it was routine for madams to pay off the police. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z She walks the reader, chapter by chapter, through different aspects of a definition, including grammar, pronunciation, etymology and more. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z You will learn, for example, that beneath Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" is a way better message about a more important topic than dubiously intentioned swagger: good grammar. Weird Al's 'Mandatory Fun' is a funny sort of masterpiece 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z These kids may not be able to do grammar because they have lousy schools and all that kind of stuff. "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z First, there’s the handsomeness of the language itself, the way he insists that black vernacular is its own grammar. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Occasionally their grammar becomes a bit clotted, but they abound with invention. Review: Dark Suspicions in Jumps and Gestures in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Cameron-Weir is a writer as well, and in the text that doubles as an artist's statement and press release, she sheds the conventions of grammar and punctuation, redacts some words and invents others, like "gridbondages." Elaine Cameron-Weir at Hannah Hoffman: Unsettling beauty 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z And when grammar evaporates in translation, as it often does, what we lose is this “form of history.” What can we learn from translations of the Bible? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Disclaimer: There is no instructional grammar primer on how one must use the little graphic symbols known as emoji. Here Are Rules of Using Emoji You Didn't Know You Were Following 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z His father, an impoverished intellectual, taught at a mediocre grammar school that had the misfortune to be not far from Marlborough College, an elite private school. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z Should she go to the slammer For the sex, or bad grammar? Style Invitational Week 1099: Yours for the asking — it’s Questionable Journalism Cranking out low-budget B pictures allowed Suzuki the freedom to disregard established film grammar. Seijun Suzuki: can Japan's cult master cross over? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z For British politicians—who are surpassingly likely to have attended one of the nation’s better grammar or private schools—a familiarity with “Middlemarch” is an assumed piece of mental furniture. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “There are the language nerds who just find grammar interesting and the Na’vi folks who paint themselves blue and go to conventions,” Mr. Annis said. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z Although adults rarely achieve the same level of fluency that children do, the scientific research suggests that differences typically pertain more to accent than grammar. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z The very grammar of these sentences reminds us of the element of empathy that’s so often missing in our regard for people ruined by the scandals that amuse us. Monica Lewinsky, reimagined 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z She may get the job — bad grammar and all. Correcting a Co-Worker’s Grammar: Helpful or Hurtful? 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Champions of old-school grammar insist that “woman” is a noun and that it is wrong to use a noun as an adjective when the language already has a perfectly good adjective in the word “female.” Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z While most readers are understandably enraged when they buy a book and then spot spelling, grammar and factual errors, some may feel that other considerations are more important. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z |
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