单词 | grammatical |
例句 | Only after laying a semblance of it on the page can a writer free up the cognitive resources needed to make the sentence grammatical, graceful, and, most important, transparent to the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was confessing to the wrong crime; its slogan was perfectly grammatical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was written in one long paragraph, with little punctuation and many spelling errors, and at first I fixated on these grammatical irregularities as a way to mute the text. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The grammatical mood is imperative, but the rhetorical effect is one of intimacy and humility. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Well, between the 16th century and the present day, it became a kind of scary grammatical sheepdog. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He split hairs for three-quarters of an hour on the grammatical accuracy of his text. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z As for why it's easier to talk to me about this stuff—maybe it's because I'm so cute and grammatical? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Countless idioms, word senses, and grammatical constructions have been coined and circulated by the universe of English speakers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z All of this awareness depends on a basic grasp of what grammatical categories are, how they differ from functions and meanings, and how they fit into trees. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A second-grade student, I was the one who came home and corrected the ‘simple’ grammatical mistakes of our parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But this confuses the grammatical category “adjective” with the grammatical function “modifier.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Encarta World English Dictionary: “There is no grammatical basis for rejecting split infinitives.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Based on these mini-experiments, modern grammarians have sorted words into grammatical categories that sometimes differ from the traditional pigeonholes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I refer to the “double possessive”, which is evidently a perfecdy respectable grammatical construction, but simply jars with me, and perhaps always will. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z And here was a case where the stylistic reasons for its inclusion clearly outweighed the grammatical ones for taking it out. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z After all, leaving the wrong impression is much worse than making a couple of grammatical boo-boos. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And, by the way, you were very coherent and grammatical for four in the morning. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Languages also have grammatical functions whose job is not to distinguish the cast of characters but to pipe up with other kinds of information. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Together with its grammatical category, verb, we see a label in parentheses for its grammatical function, in this case, head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Well, that attitude can get you tossed into grammatical purgatory. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It also determines the grammatical category of the phrase: in this case it is a verb phrase, a phrase built around a verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Despite the best efforts of grammatical exorcists, the ghosts of dead rules and the spirits of imaginary taboos are still rattling and thumping about the old place. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps you think that the first version, the one with the unmarked subject, is an increasingly common symptom of grammatical laziness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He made spelling and grammatical mistakes he’d long mastered and soon he was writing broken English and then no English at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They consulted dictionaries to look up correct information about word meanings and grammatical constructions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Milo, also my science teacher, gave me an A+ on the report, even though I had made several grammatical mistakes in it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Over his grammatical mistakes she detected the note of fear in his voice. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z First, it can help you avoid some obvious grammatical errors, those that are errors according to your own lights. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I promise I'm still relatively grammatical over text. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z When you want to be on your very best grammatical behavior, use due to only if you mean “caused by” or “resulting from”: The damage was due to moths. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Gender, a grammatical term for “kind,” describes the ways some languages categorize nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They treat these introductory words as mere throat-clearing with no grammatical significance, then stick in an unnecessary is before going on with the rest of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In public, my father and mother spoke a hesitant, accented, not always grammatical English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A musical phrase is actually a lot like a grammatical phrase. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Recall from chapter 4 that grammatical categories like adjective are not the same thing as grammatical functions like modifier and complement. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In fact, these reference works, with their careful attention to history, literature, and actual usage, are the most adamant debunkers of grammatical nonsense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Right away, we could rule out a few grammatical shitstorms, along with anything that seemed too technically knowledgeable about sex. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z There are others, but they don't make grammatical sense.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z My advice will often shock purists and occasionally puzzle readers who have always been under the impression that this word meaning or that grammatical usage is an error. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This preposing avoids the monotony of a long string of similar sentences, even though herons are the grammatical subjects of every one. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The extra stuff that plumps out a phrase may include additional grammatical functions which distinguish the various roles in the story identified by the head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Because they had no ideology. between you and I. This commonly heard phrase is often held out as an excruciating grammatical blunder. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z A grammatical function identifies not what a word is in the language but what it does in that particular sentence: how it combines with the other words to determine the sentence’s meaning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I want you to make a grammatical four-word sentence as quickly as possible out of each set. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The fact that many prescriptive rules are worth keeping does not mean that every pet peeve, bit of grammatical folklore, or dimly remembered lesson from Miss Thistlebottom’s classroom is worth keeping. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I stand frozen, or I hold up the line with the complete, grammatical sentence that comes squeaking out at impossible length. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Suitcase’s grammatical mistake struck everyone as extremely comical. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The syntactic confusion about which grammatical person belongs in which phrase reflects our intellectual confusion about the very meaning of the concept “person.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “And the only person whom I’ll be subjecting to questioning is you, tomorrow afternoon, regarding the proper use of grammatical tenses!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The nature of the grammatical subject matters, too. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As we shall see in chapter 6, many spurious rules, including some that have made national headlines, are the result of bungled analyses of grammatical categories like adjective, subordinator, and preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Most grammatical rules are defined over trees, not strings, so this momentary tree-blindness can lead to pesky errors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They employed it to write syllables or letters constituting grammatical endings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They have made an art form out of grammatical yet unparsable sentences: The horse raced past the barn fell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over like a cigarette should is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Still other grammatical functions can be put to work in identifying other roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I was also taught that a “noun” is a word for a person, place, or thing, which confuses a grammatical category with a semantic category. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Arms and elbows at odds, with fingers fanned, Chris tried to rearrange the words in some grammatical, if not logical, order. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s easy—and wrong—to diagnose the problem as a violation of a grammatical rule called subject control. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I just try to make grammatical sense with the remaining letters. Anyway, it's just a trick.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Signing off text messages with a kiss, he says, is grammatical, not sexual – but that undermines the ensuing kiss-crazy roleplay, which depends on us seeing digital kisses as analogous to real ones. Dan Clark ? review 2011-04-11T17:30:52Z Was he nothing to do with nothing, I mean anything, just a way of showing that Sherlock – who picks him up on all of his grammatical errors – is both heartless and a pedant? TV review: Sherlock 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z "I'm not grammatical in the way I talk, or in the way I write, and I don't pretend to be. I'm a high school dropout who eavesdrops." Jackie Collins' home may soon be for sale (and it won't be cheap) 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s for grammatical consistency, not beauty or gentilesse, for example, that correct English has us say “It was he” instead of “It was him.” Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Until recently, this mostly quixotic linguistic pursuit, born out of a passion for words and grammatical structures, lived on little-visited Web sites or in college dissertations. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z These sentence fragments, spoken in a hushed, neutral tone, build into tentative grammatical structures, acquiring a quasi-sense as they do so. A stroll with sound/video artist Gary Hill through his new show 2012-05-02T22:15:08Z God help you if you've attempted to pass useful information on to your English-speaking patrons by writing a sign and then committed a grammatical faux pas within it. Inbetweeners 2: Eight things British people can't help doing abroad 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Polyptoton, the device which repeats the same word in a different grammatical case, continues to enliven the emotional interplay in the sestet. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z When you write a letter to the White House, you don’t need to worry about making context calibrations—not grammatical ones, anyway—because the rules are there. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z He pointed the way that there was this part of human experience that can’t be described in grammatical, in literal ways. Book Talk: Irish author was told 'didn't fit niche' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z There are some groups, like the Nonbinary Hebrew Project, that are working on building a new grammatical system for the Hebrew language, one that doesn’t specify gender. Bar or Bat Mitzvah? Hey, What About a Both Mitzvah? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z In the world of Twitter and texting, "whom" is archaic, a grammatical anachronism. Hallmark drives another nail in coffin of dying pronoun 'whom' 2012-09-07T00:09:03Z Dr. Pesetsky, who heard the presentation, dismissed the whole effort as biased from the start by its reliance on Dr. Everett’s grammatical classifications and basic assumptions. A New Book and Film About Rare Amazonian Language 2012-03-21T22:17:15Z She isn’t fluent, though, and when she shared the cover on her Instagram, criticism rolled in: followers mocked her grammatical errors and questioned if she was “really” Latina. How Gina Rodriguez sees herself 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z I hope this mini-behemoth is not rife with grammatical errors or inadvertent gaps; I am sorry if either true. Chelsea Clinton’s ‘It’s Your World’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The manuscript, written with the dramatic flair of a natural storyteller but in unpolished English, with grammatical and spelling errors, traces his life from childhood to his years at Auburn. Prison Memoir of a Black Man in the 1850s 2013-12-11T22:27:21Z Hughes notes that “as terms become more highly charged, so they acquire greater grammatical flexibility.” The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z My wife proofread the whole book, double-checking facts and references, and I went through it as well to correct grammatical errors, and stylistic inconsistencies or infelicities. JM Coetzee's official biography to hit shelves this summer 2013-03-21T16:05:07Z “I’m sorry if” is a grammatical construction that shows the speaker to be going through the motions of apology without being contrite. Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and all: have we reached ‘peak asshole’? 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Consider the extra grammatical “aspects” of African-American English, the “be” aspects conveying habitual states, which add descriptive precision and nuance. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Its first few vignettes are full of sentences that cast Jones as a grammatical object. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The grammatical strangeness touches us at almost every turn. Poem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory 2010-04-19T08:47:00Z On one level the frivolity of “Birthday Offering” is absurd; on another, the dazzling grammatical construction of its every dance is compelling. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z DiMarco’s native language, and the one he feels most comfortable using, is American Sign Language, whose grammatical structure is often communicated with one’s eyes and mouth. In ‘Deaf Utopia,’ Nyle DiMarco Dreams of Integrating the Deaf and Hearing Worlds 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Along with grammatical flexibility, this figurativeness is the hallmark of a fully obscene word, a word used not as a literal descriptor but to shock, offend, or otherwise carry emotion — a swearword. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z Like you, Charlie, I dislike the ideas of incorrigible pedants – I imagine them with wheedling voices and maybe leatherette patches on their sports jacket elbows – who pick up writers on their grammatical solecisms. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Black writers have relied on poetry for creative self-expression for centuries, challenging the structural and grammatical constraints of traditional prose. What Antwon Rose’s Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z One aspect of the art of rhyme is to avoid grammatical monotony by rhyming varied parts of speech. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z To behold a grammatical descriptivist at war with a grammatical prescriptivist who happens to be her twin is truly an uncommon pleasure. Why Gish Jen Hasn’t Read One of the Most Acclaimed Books of 2019 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Vampire Weekend’s “Oxford Comma,” about grammatical and other nitpicking, used the word almost nonchalantly. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z Ms. Shister, reached by phone, said the criticism was strictly grammatical. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z They gain grammatical precision only when he dies. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Normally we would not let design considerations govern grammatical ones. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Some people believe that it is a grammatical mistake to use ‘like’ in this way. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. He enjoys playing grammatical variations on them, and the pun-paradox "worn new" confirms the exuberance. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z Gove countered that he believed "that it's a good idea for schools to teach people how to spell, how to write a grammatical sentence, how to use multiplication tables". Rewind radio: Today; Victoria Derbyshire; Ed Reardon's Week; My Teenage Diary ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:52Z “Both of us did. And sometimes he would come to my chambers, to tell me I had made a grammatical error.” After the Play, a Supreme Encore From Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z For a subset of the crowd bothered by the singular “they,” this isn’t really a grammatical issue. Perspective | A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Note the superlative—the grammatical form of choice for comic-book adjectives. “Suicide Squad” Reviewed 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z His project was an effort to discern if a chimpanzee could learn sign language and if that learning could proceed beyond the mimicry of specific gestures into the creation of grammatical sentences. | 'Project Nim': Some Humans and the Chimp They Loved and Tormented 2011-07-07T22:30:06Z Us journalists can always fall back on the grammatical skills that got we where us are today. Perspective | A lesson in journalism: Sometimes you’re Sherlock, sometimes you’re Watson 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Less than 10 percent of Americans are able to identify the grammatical error in this entry. Style Invitational Week 1320: Questionable journalism 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Another was to correct obvious grammatical errors and word repetitions. In search of David Foster Wallace's Pale King 2011-04-08T09:17:13Z English prose, so one argument runs, must adapt to the new lexicon with all its grammatical violations and banality. George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z Stone wondered, with enough assurance in his delivery to give the sentence an illusion of grammatical fitness. The England vs. Croatia World Cup Match Made for Some Awkward Television 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z God save us from sloppy writing and editing, and unintentional grammatical errors, no matter the power of the imagination they spring from. Do grammar police arrest the imagination? 2013-06-12T16:40:30Z Did we possess grammatical language where they didn’t, bringing huge survival benefits? A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a stubborn, longtime hurdle to transgender acceptance and equality, a fundamental refusal to afford those people even basic grammatical dignity.” She? Ze? They? What’s In a Gender Pronoun 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z These small grammatical rebellions strike some as poetic and others as pretentious — at least when the titles are given as their composers intended. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “Or do they seem like they just threw the listing together in a minute flat, with grammatical errors and vague statements about being ‘the best’?” Perspective | How to choose a vacation rental 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Have we seen a grammatical, respectful and substantive discussion of the issues? A tale of two populisms: Do you want to live in Donald Trump’s New York or Bob Dylan’s America? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Their evenly distributed monosyllabic weight gives them a strong presence, although their grammatical position is unclear. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z "There is a long history of linguistic institutions such as the Spanish Royal Academy trying to 'police' their languages' vocabularies or grammatical norms," he stated via email. The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The counter-argument, from the grammatical standpoint, is that nouns morph into adjectives all the time: a “manservant” is a male servant; the “autumn equinox” sounds better than the “autumnal equinox.” Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In his new novel, “Beast,” Kingsnorth strips out nearly all punctuation and grammatical cues and assigns the telling to a narrator who seems, at best, only intermittently reliable. ‘Beast’ cements Paul Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z “The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.” 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z This is one of the grammatical ways that Chekhov pushes the reader onto the surface of the story, and so the story remains mysterious, only periodically flashing into clarity. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Setting hot revelers ablaze above Mustard’s sibilant, minimal beats, YG offered a lesson in the cussword's grammatical versatility while presenting songs from his new album, "My Crazy Life." Made in America L.A.: Day 1 sizzles, Top Dawg claims throne 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z When her doltish spouse asks Eliza which of them loves the other more, hilarious grammatical confusion rapidly ensues: Review | My plan for fending off the holiday blues? Escaping into light fiction from another era. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “They now also began to contrast grammatical and lexical change over time in quite diverse languages believed to be related over vast spans of time and space.” ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished The thrill of breaking The New Yorker’s style rules—violating all kinds of American grammatical conventions as we go—has been only one of the joys of working on Ferrante’s arresting, unputdownable books. My Favorite Cultural Moments of 2015 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Professor Davison discovered more than misplaced commas and other grammatical or typographical errors in the material. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Linguistic variations in syntax, formality and grammatical gender pose their own problems. Say what? Why film translators are in a war of words over subtitles 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Filled with potty humor as well as deliberate grammatical errors and misspellings, "Super Diaper Baby 2" isn't likely to be most parents' first reading choice — at least at first. Super Diaper Baby is back in all his powder and glory 2011-07-23T01:23:32Z This implicit grammatical knowledge overwhelms, in its intricacy and depth, the relatively few rules that people must be consciously taught at school. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Another mom complained her seventh grader got decent marks on a writing assignment rife with spelling and grammatical errors. Motherlode Blog: I Know My Son Isn't Doing His Homework. Why Doesn't HIs Report Card Show It? 2013-04-30T16:23:01Z The book is full of Hildegard’s cute grammatical mistakes, and also a fair number of technical transcriptions of her German speech. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Rodari’s books, with their accessible style and jokes built around grammatical mistakes, were intended to empower disadvantaged children who weren’t exposed to books and formal speech at home. Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Tarpons, because of grammatical gender and size, are big guys. U.S. anglers seek out the infamous Bay of Pigs for an exclusive fly-fishing experience 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It features his usual misspelling and grammatical inconsistencies. Mama is a Trump troll 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z It's no fun prissily adhering to grammatical rules if it's mandatory. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z “It’s nice if they can fix grammatical errors, but changing details that can fundamentally alter the story bothers me,” he said. It’s Their Content, You’re Just Licensing it 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z It has its universal elements, and a theme – or rather, a grammatical tense – first touched on in Nothing to be Frightened of, his meditation on death, resurfaces in Levels of Life. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z To this absurdity she replies, bitterly, “Well, thank God it’s grammatical, because the whole world is reading it.” ‘A Very English Scandal’ Review: Sex, Intrigue and Bunnies 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z When you work for the dictionary, people mind their grammatical p's and q's around you out of fear. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Commenting on historical narratives, Raulff writes, “History is written in the indicative mood, but lived and remembered in the optative — the grammatical mood of wishful thinking.” Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z “It’s filled with grammatical errors and inappropriate capitalizations and hideous typefaces. Gross color combinations, horrible uses of scale. Everything is awful, awful, awful.” The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Notice the emotional loss is expressed in a comment about grammatical usage. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z The U.S. director, speaking in heavily accented French with creative grammatical flourishes, addressed a packed audience at the opening Thursday of the Paris Film Festival. Woody Allen to Paris: Like the film, or else 2010-07-02T00:31:00Z The idea that this is wrong is a grammatical superstition confected in the 18th century and foisted on a language that had been using such constructions without problem — as it still does. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z “My lifes work was stolen from me,” she wrote in a 13-page complaint riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors. In a Lawsuit Over a Song, a Plaintiff’s Unusual Approach 2012-08-18T15:21:19Z And at certain points, “The Birthmark” crosses a threshold where the logic of the prose really loosens, and the grammatical constructions of prose are suspended. Where does music end and poetry begin? David Grubbs wrote his first poem to find out 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “She didn’t think that grammatical gender would change the way people thought. Then we started talking about the word ‘giraffe,’ which is masculine in my native Russian but feminine in German. What Do Womxn Want? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “There was a different grammatical and idiomatic structure,” he said. One of Marvel's Avengers Turns to Sign Language 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z 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 Which common grammatical error most drives you crazy? Q&A with Steven Pinker, author of ‘The Sense of Style’ Here’s another example of a similar grammatical confusion. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z At the time, its myriad grammatical complexities — as rich as, though quite different from, those of English — were only dimly understood. Audree Norton Dies at 88; Paved Way for Deaf Actors 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Basically, she made visual illustrations of sentences that were themselves illustrations of different grammatical rules, with examples of both correct and incorrect usage. Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The high court may be divided, and its decisions sometimes unpopular, but it isn’t dysfunctional or impotent, and its opinions are at least grammatical and often inspiring. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z He followed with videos like “Foil,” a play on Lorde’s “Royals” about the uses of aluminum food wrap, and “Word Crimes,” a rant about bad grammatical habits set to Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”: Weird Al Yankovic Scores With ‘Mandatory Fun’ 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z A sad grammatical error in an otherwise perfectly scientifically factual movie about men who swap faces then switch back again with no medical complications at all. Rogue colons, endless ellipses: the worst grammar crimes in film titles 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Ken likes to use Comic Sans font and, more often than not, his signs include a typo or grammatical error. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her heart’s not in the marriage. And yet, her therapist persists. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Sloppy diction and grammatical errors in conversation register as minor assaults on her ear, as if her headphones had suddenly erupted into high-pitched feedback. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In my three years at the agency, I received about two dozen emails from the executive director, all of which were addressed to the entire staff and contained grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors. Policing the police 2012-08-29T18:11:00Z But she will also appear more personally vulnerable, persistently more innocent about the ways of the world and guilty of a youthful grammatical weakness: the use of "between you and I". Margaret Thatcher biography reveals passions across the years 2013-04-21T19:41:48Z To establish the past tense in Kannada requires some elaborate grammatical framing. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Starting off, he notes the muddled approach of many style manuals: “The rules often mash together issues of grammatical correctness, logical coherence, formal style, and standard dialect.” Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. We may be doing grammatical somersaults, but all the while the "voice" we are giving birth to in a new language is creeping up on us, whispering in our ear. Walking the tightrope between translation and interpretation 2010-06-18T11:14:00Z “Kinship has central importance in Murrinhpatha culture, and we see that encoded in the grammatical structure,” she explains. Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z This gives rise to much more humanlike bots that can grapple with multiple meanings, follow grammatical rules and imitate style. The Latest AI Chatbots Can Handle Text, Images and Sound. Here’s How 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The inscription’s “minor grammatical errors” offer a clue about its author, Mr. Ecker said. Ancient inscription of Bible verse found at Judean archaeological site 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Pronouns are a part of the grammatical language we use to identify a person apart from their name. Seattle Pride 2023: Your field guide to flags, lingo and more 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Words or phrases that are frequently used morph into ever more abstract and compressed grammatical forms. This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Things become grammatical, Nordlinger notes, when people talk about them a lot. Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Importantly, these corrections were not just a question of grammatical issues, but of meaning. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z There is also a grammatical error in translating "freedoms" in the Welsh pledge. Welsh language oath asks people to curse at God 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z It struggles with grammatical features such as pronouns. A Brain Scanner Combined with an AI Language Model Can Provide a Glimpse into Your Thoughts 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Moreover, that family was unique in having a grammatical system based on the human body at every structural level. This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Look for grammatical mistakes in emails and physical mail from outfits claiming to provide relief. Anxious about your student loan debt? Beware of offers that are too good to be true 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Their Spanish would have been Americanized, not textbook and not always grammatical. Opinion: How I helped TV's 'Perry Mason' find the real Latinx L.A. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Two years ago, not only did the County Council have to vote to approve a grammatical change to the county charter, but the change also required a vote of the people. King County Council votes unanimously for the Oxford comma 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Even the deliberate grammatical mistakes Trump puts in his posts, so that they get spread further by liberals mocking his illiteracy, felt tired. Everyone knows Tucker Carlson lies about Jan. 6 — what matters is the GOP now blesses his narrative 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z A good poet understands grammatical norms and when to break them. Perspective | AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “The trouble was that you were also embodied, which meant that you could never quite transcend yourself, or evacuate the frame, or shirk the myth of the grammatical singular.” Review | ‘Couplets,’ an erotic novel in verse, explores the ferocity of desire 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z In the non-fluent variant, people may struggle to form sentences that make grammatical sense — or to produce words at all. What is frontotemporal dementia? The disease afflicting actor Bruce Willis is incurable 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Our tests found that it sometimes offers responses that potentially include plagiarism, contradict itself, are factually incorrect or have grammatical errors, to name a few — all of which could be problematic at work. Can ChatGPT help me at the office? We put the AI chatbot to the test. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Sharp-eyed readers are particularly exasperated by typos and grammatical errors. Perspective | What readers hate most in books — from dreams to italics 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The administrator got back letters that weren’t on official letterhead and were filled with grammatical errors. Encino chiropractor who bilked the NBA's health plan sentenced to prison 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z After all, she made sure to include a grammatical mistake to maximize retweets and dunks from liberals. Religious right thinks it's time for a big comeback — but their wrong 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z You're presented with grammatical rules, you have listed a vocabulary, and so on and so forth. How to speak Na'vi: An interview with the creator of the alien language in "Avatar" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Articles containing falsehoods that are written by nonnative speakers can sometimes be easily identified because of grammatical or syntax errors, Mr. Pekkala said. How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Some traditionalists and conspiracy theorists would later quibble with the grammatical formula Benedict used, claiming it rendered the announcement null and that Benedict was still pope. Benedict’s 2013 resignation shook a routine Vatican ceremony 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z A nonnative English speaker could ask ChatGPT to remove grammatical errors from an email before sending it. How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z When the manuscript came back after the author reviewed the editing, I found he had reinstated many grammatical errors that I had corrected. Advice | Work Advice: How can I defend my reputation when my edits are ignored? 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z A Sanskrit grammatical problem which has perplexed scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by a University of Cambridge PhD student. Cambridge PhD student solves 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z You can try to identify fraudulent emails by carefully checking the sender’s address for a domain that doesn’t match the shipping company’s, or by combing the email for spelling and grammatical errors. Don’t get scammed this holiday season. Here’s what to watch out for 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z And that glue is grammar: a system of rules for generating grammatical sentences. AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “The Choreography of Everyday Life” is Parson’s third book, and worth reading for her astute grammatical observations, among other wise non-sequiturs. Review | In Annie-B Parson’s book, art and life are always intersecting 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The case proved particularly gripping because of a strange grammatical error in the message supposedly scrawled by Ms. Marchal, who was found with multiple bruises and cuts behind a barricaded door. No New Trial in Murder Mystery That Gripped France, Court Rules 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The indictment and filings submitted in the case are dense and technical, with some focusing on the proper grammatical way to parse FBI questions and Danchenko’s responses. Steele dossier source heads to trial, in possible last stand for Durham 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z You can also look for the same sorts of clues in charity-related emails that you would in any unsolicited message, he said, such as misspellings, grammatical errors and odd phrasings. Don’t get scammed this holiday season. Here’s what to watch out for 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z They demonstrate that the ability to produce grammatical language can be learned from linguistic experience alone. AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z However, she told the court it had a lot of spelling and grammatical errors and she knew the victim to be more articulate. Ayr building firm boss killed worker with cable ties 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z However, in the course of our online conversation we noticed that their Ukrainian was full of grammatical errors. Undercover with Russia’s fake arms dealers 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Jacob Rees-Mogg, recently appointed as Britain’s business secretary, was also quick to outline his grammatical grievances when he became leader of the House of Commons in 2019. U.K. Health Ministry Wants No Oxford Commas. Period. 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z With nearly 7,500 Twitter followers, he was also happy to enter the fray over any grammatical dustup. Henry Fuhrmann, Times editor and 'word nerd' who fought for fairness in grammar, dies 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z None of us are perfect, and all of us have published Facebook posts with misspellings, grammatical errors, mistaken “facts,” or opinions that we immediately realized might not need to be aired in public. How to edit, delete, and restore a Facebook post 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z A passage containing a quotation must follow all the rules of grammatical sentence structure: tenses should be consistent, verbs and subjects should agree, and so on. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In the online chat, the trader also made grammatical mistakes in tenses and word endings, suggesting he was not a native Ukrainian speaker and that he was translating his messages. Undercover with Russia’s fake arms dealers 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z However, scammers are catching on to how important design quality is to appear more convincing, the BBB warns, so be sure to also look for any grammatical errors and inconsistent content quality. Tips to avoid scams and shop online safely 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Copy editors are like judges adjudicating grammatical disputes, managing fragile and pugnacious egos, and addressing demands for speed, accuracy and timeliness. Henry Fuhrmann, Times editor and 'word nerd' who fought for fairness in grammar, dies 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “Her diction was formal, her sentence structure entirely grammatical,” Neil gushes. Review | Julian Barnes is back. But where’s the magic? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Although most are grammatical errors, sentence fragments can be used judiciously in conventional writing so long as the purpose is clear to readers and the fragment is clearly intended. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But it has retained the grammatical norms of ancient patriarchies. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The academy, charged with coining Hebrew words to keep up with the times and maintaining grammatical standards, finds itself arbitrating between linguistic anarchy and societal change. He Says, She Says: A Biblical Tongue Meets Gender Politics 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Packing her style guides and a folding table, she hit the road, parking herself on sidewalks across the country — 47 towns in 47 states before covid intervened — and offering grammatical instruction to passersby. Review | Reader does this question need a comma? A new book offers grammar help. 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The draft, first issued with dozens of grammatical errors, bafflingly enshrined the Tunisian state as the sole and best interpreter of sharia law for all Muslims. Opinion | Tunisia’s constitutional referendum represents a dark day for democracy 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Pronoun case refers to the grammatical function of the pronoun in a sentence. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Many transgender people want to erase grammatical gender terms altogether. In Argentina’s Capital, a Battle Over Gender-Inclusive Language in Classrooms 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z When we’re accessing deep honesty with ourselves, the last thing I want to care about is my punctuation or whether this makes grammatical sense. Can writing on Instagram help you heal from trauma? Mimi Zhu has a few thoughts on that 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The original document was written in Portuguese and included notable grammatical mistakes. Alleged Russian spy studied at Johns Hopkins, won ICC internship 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The test, which one report says is riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, is not required by UK border authorities. Ryanair Afrikaans test: South African fury over language quiz 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Although your task is not to edit the essay or mark every error, point out any consistent patterns of grammatical errors. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The text has a grammatical error, the type faces are wrong and the colours of the banners don't match. Kenya Elections 2022: Misinformation circulating online 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z A chyron overlaid on the manipulated image saying “that gunman, 18 years old,” featured a grammatical error and an incorrect typeface that is not used by ABC. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z For many students, her method was empowering, although critics have said it was too loose for those without strong grammatical skills. In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z "So both the languages rest on a shared grammatical base," Dr Rai explains, "but both Hindi and Urdu have also for political reasons developed myths of origin" . Why Urdu language draws ire of India’s right-wing 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z A mixed-construction sentence contains parts that do not fit together because of grammatical structure or meaning. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Instead I was looking to uncover languagelike grammatical abilities in birds. What Birds Really Listen for in Birdsong (It’s Not What You Think) 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Her review committee would take weeks to deliver feedback that amounted to little more than minor grammatical and formatting suggestions yet required her to make revisions, starting the weekslong wait all over again. Lawsuit charges for-profit university preyed on Black and female students 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Even while they resisted, African Americans slowly forged their own culture, using their own versions of English with African words and grammatical features. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter that much that the interpreter’s exertions were at times halting or contained grammatical imperfections. Perspective | Zelensky’s address to Congress was a dramatic appeal in three acts 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z These sentence errors occur when writers begin a statement in one way, or one direction, and then unintentionally change grammatical paths. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The grammatical flaws in the doctors’ arguments did not stop there, Justice Alito said. Supreme Court Hears Case of Doctors Accused of Running Pill Mills 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z If the message is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, or seems out of line, then it’s likely a scam. Ask Help Desk: How to stop those annoying spam texts 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z While other resources will spend more time on grammatical rules and complex mechanics, there’s nothing else I’ve found that teaches so much usable material so quickly. How to learn a language online 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Amy Lynn Hess, the author of a grammatical textbook on diagraming sentences, told us that mapping out that one sentence alone would take about six hours and require a large piece of paper. The 1887 Law Putting American Democracy at Risk 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The text does not adhere to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter—mixed sentence constructions, as discussed in Section 9.6—and does not maintain consistency in constructing the grammatical paths of sentences. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z His report writing routinely lacked the necessary details and was rife with typographical and grammatical errors. Redmond officer who killed woman had been dismissed from another agency for poor performance 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z These messages turned the grammatical subjunctive into a way of being in the world: September was the month when our baby would have been born, if I had carried to term. Every Year He Texts Me: ‘I Love You’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s also more focused on hammering precise grammatical rules. How to learn a language online 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z And sometimes when English loses a word, a grammatical distinction goes with it. Opinion | Words in English don’t last forever. And that’s okay. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Fragmented sentences can be used judiciously in conventional writing, even academic writing, as long as their purpose is clear and your fragment is not mistaken for a grammatical error. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z A Virginia teachers union has faced ridicule online after it sent a letter riddled with grammatical and typographical errors. Virginia teachers union mocked for grammatical errors in COVID-19 letter 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z But the note contained a glaring grammatical mistake. Gardener Omar Raddad wins fight to re-open notorious murder case 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But the flashcard format still seems mostly useful for growing vocabulary and less useful for grammatical structures and being able to converse and create sentences. How to learn a language online 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Distinguishing countable and uncountable nouns through “less” and “fewer” is a grammatical nuance but not a communicative necessity. Opinion | Words in English don’t last forever. And that’s okay. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z And /s/ may be added to words as a grammatical construction: Alls we need is more ice cream. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z I don’t mean grammatical mistakes or wording or style problems, but conceptually it was a very complicated book. Author David Treuer mentored a generation of Native authors. Now, he'll publish them 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z And at Mr Raddat's trial, they said she had a habit of making grammatical errors. Gardener Omar Raddad wins fight to re-open notorious murder case 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Mace quickly shot back with a series of corrections – both grammatical and political. Marjorie Taylor Greene takes to Twitter to attack Nancy Mace: “Your out of your league” 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z So, when you find a person on a dating site who is looking for “less dates that go nowhere,” don’t swipe left for grammatical reasons. Opinion | Words in English don’t last forever. And that’s okay. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Concentrate on using an authentic dialect, including vocabulary, grammatical conventions, and sentence structure, when constructing your story. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z And there was the final message — which contained a grammatical error. A Socialite, a Gardener, a Message in Blood: The Murder That Still Grips France 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Some linguists believe they sprang from the same source, but others say extensive borrowing between ancient languages explains why certain sounds, terms, and grammatical features are common among many tongues, from Turkish to Tungusic. How agriculture gave rise to one of the world’s most mysterious language families 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z It also makes a grammatical change: shifting the word “insure” to “ensure,” in a sentence about the county’s responsibility for accountable governance. Progressives on the ropes? 5 takeaways from Seattle’s election night returns 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Charter Amendment 1 makes several changes — some symbolic, one grammatical — to the charter’s preamble. Amendments to King County charter look to easily pass 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The text usually adheres to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter—mixed sentence constructions, as discussed in Section 9.6—and maintains consistency in constructing the grammatical paths of sentences. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Critics also highlighted that its website contained many spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Squid Game crypto token collapses in apparent scam 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z There were a few misspellings and grammatical errors. Perspective | Bob Ferry built the Washington Bullets into NBA champions, one laugh at a time 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The county’s 1.3 million registered voters must vote on a grammatical tweak. King County charter amendments give you the rare chance to vote on grammar (among other things) 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The pronoun “they” already has enough on its grammatical plate. Opinion | ‘They’ has been a singular pronoun for centuries. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s wrong. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Parallelism: a rhetorical technique of using similar words, phrases, or other grammatical constructions to connect related ideas, emphasize a point, or add rhythm. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Some of the doctor’s letters contained grammatical errors and misspelled patient names. Prosecutors charge 18 former NBA players with defrauding benefits program of nearly $4 million 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z I usually ignore the grammatical errors in The Post, but some are so jarring that I find them intrusive in an otherwise good article. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Surprised to see my brother’s tractor 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z King County Charter Amendment No. 1 proposes a grammatical change to the county charter’s preamble, which lays out the mission and goals of county government. King County charter amendments give you the rare chance to vote on grammar (among other things) 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Ask someone else to read your application to help spot any spelling or grammatical errors that could mean your CV goes straight in the bin. Job vacancies: How do I find a new job and who is hiring? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z By some accounts, the modules are haphazard and difficult to understand, and schools came under criticism early in the pandemic for glaring mathematical and grammatical errors, and bizarre questions and prompts. As most students return to classrooms, schools in some countries have been shuttered for 18 months straight 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Duplass impresses not only in the delivery of the Spanish-language dialogue — the subtitles account for his grammatical errors when speaking — but in the rawness of his turn. Review: Stars Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass align in feel-good tale 'Language Lessons' 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Keep an eye out for spelling or grammatical errors, misspelled web addresses or slightly altered email domains. That email asking for proof of vaccination might be a phishing scam 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The Charter Review Commission, in its lengthy report, gives no rationale for the change other than to say that it’s a “grammatical change.” King County charter amendments give you the rare chance to vote on grammar (among other things) 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z While hacking the email account of the Supples’ neighbor demonstrates a modicum of tech savviness, the grammatical errors in the second email show that the hacker isn’t exactly a criminal mastermind. Column: The pandemic is 'a cornucopia for scam artists.' Here's how to protect yourself 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The grammatical errors in the cartoon, according to Graphika, are similar to those sometimes made by native Russian speakers writing in English. Russian disinformation targets vaccines and the Biden administration 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Many rely on automatic translation software to turn Chinese messages into English, meaning such messages are riddled with typos, or contain clumsy grammatical structures. How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Some state media publications have referred to Mr Jones as a former British journalist, yet the BBC found no evidence to support this, and his channel is peppered with grammatical and punctuation errors. The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Posts often included grammatical errors that suggested non-English speakers were writing them, for example. Russia is still the biggest player in disinformation, Facebook says 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z “I edit for grammatical errors and things like maybe a few redundancies, but I do not edit his voice,” von Maur said. Wyoming 11-year-old launches weekly newspaper 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z But he also did a stint as a copy editor, purging copy of misspellings, grammatical slip-ups and errors of usage. John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Obvious grammatical errors, like “blanco tequila,” improper taste testing and lack of acknowledgment to the people actually creating the product is destructive to the voices of those marginalized being heard. Feedback: Woody Allen's defenders and cancel culture 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z For example, in Maryland, Peterson and the other three bilingual Vaccine Hunters discovered significant grammatical errors in the Spanish translation of the state vaccine appointment form, mistakes that made the instructions baffling. Teens And Other Volunteers Help Seniors Find Scarce COVID Shots 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The shared grammatical construction - incorrect use of the noun “Democrat” as an adjective - was far from the most shocking thing about the two men’s statements. What’s in an adjective? ‘Democrat Party’ label on the rise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z The shared grammatical construction — incorrect use of the noun “Democrat” as an adjective — was far from the most shocking thing about the two men’s statements. What’s in an adjective? ‘Democrat Party’ label on the rise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z In the universe of grammatical gadflies — a mantle many of them wear proudly — Mr. Richards represented a particularly committed species. John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z King’s note, peppered with grammatical errors, said he wants his funds to be “divided equally among” his five children. Larry King's handwritten will complicates the fight over talk-show host's estate 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z It states that any post or note you add, pointing out somebody’s spelling or grammatical error, will itself contain at least one spelling or grammar error. India v England: Root hits double hundred on day two of first Test – live! 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z "She reads every story, and calls when there are grammatical errors or typos," a source told the outlet. How the Mercers’ millions bankrolled election lies, white nationalism and the Capitol riot 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z “ASL is NOT broken English or even a form of English. ASL is an actual language with its own grammatical structure, and syntax that is embedded in Deaf culture,” Cheslik said. Why Deaf interpreters are a crucial tool during the pandemic 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z I miss the sign that sits in front of my mom’s house each December and nags at me with its grammatical messiness. Perspective | At the end of an isolating year, even the embarrassing, frustrating, weird parts of family gatherings feel missed 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Greco, with his bushy white eyebrows and signature glower, cultivated a reputation for grammatical grouchiness. Opinion | Priceless lessons from my sixth-grade English teacher 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z His, though riddled with grammatical errors and misspellings, were always positive, kind, respectful and inquisitive — about his situation, about our lives, about the world. Perspective | My client atoned for his sin. The Trump administration had him killed anyway. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “One of my favorite cards I wrote is just the word “moo,” which doesn’t make any grammatical sense with the prompts, but it always gets a big laugh,” he said. How a bawdy online game is helping friends stay connected during the pandemic 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z The emails and text messages they tried to send to Americans contained so many spelling, syntax and grammatical errors that they seemed unlikely to fool their targets. U.S. Tried a More Aggressive Cyberstrategy, and the Feared Attacks Never Came 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Fidler calls that explanation “preposterous,” saying it would be impossible for a technical glitch to create “perfectly grammatical sentences that are exactly opposite in meaning.” Delete offensive language? Change recommendations? Some editors say it's OK to alter peer reviews 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z A pivotal moment in the film’s final act, for example, actually hinges on one character’s grammatical critique of another’s quote. The Trial of the Chicago 7 doesn’t know who its villain is 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z He compares grammatical sentences to prison sentences, cancer in a human body to the gentrification of Oakland, Freddy Krueger to the American criminal justice system. Review: Black life in California, potent and poetic on Pasadena Playhouse's virtual stage 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Emails that include misspellings, grammatical errors, generic greetings, unbelievable claims and requests for personal information are risky, the agency said. State: Cybercrime on the rise during pandemic, caution urged 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z It then produces treelike networks to understand how individual words relate to one another: If each word is a leaf, then the branches connecting them represent grammatical rules. This new algorithm can find the hidden patterns in your dreams 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In “Going Nucular,” he discussed the use of “was like” by young people as a replacement for “says” or “said” — a modern-day locution that drives grammatical purists mad. Geoffrey Nunberg, who explored how language shapes politics and insults, dies at 75 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Another giveaway is spelling or grammatical errors in emails or websites. Google, Amazon, WhatsApp top list of hackers' favorite brands to imitate, report says 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z For proponents of capitalizing black, there are grammatical reasons — it is a proper noun, referring to a specific group of people with a shared political identity, shaped by colonialism and slavery. A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’? 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z It dismays me to see that The Post has a way to go before it achieves complete grammatical accuracy. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Don’t fan Fauci fever 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z It's a way to ascribe meaning to a world without meaning, a world as chaotic and unpredictable as the grammatical decisions in a Trump tweet. Trump is a brilliant performance artist: We can't defeat him without understanding that 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The body is divided into seven zones, each designated by an abstract symbol that is attached to nouns, verbs, adjectives and other grammatical categories to create different meanings. The Pandemic also Threatens Endangered Languages 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z “This intervention is interesting because its objective is not grammatical, but rather political and social, to create a consensus to change the culture and eventually change laws.” In Argentina, a Bid to Make Language Gender Neutral Gains Traction 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z But they have published his entries after making only some grammatical changes, he said. In a City Under Lockdown, Hope Arrives by Motorbike 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z At Wellesley College, Dr. Angela Carpenter teaches the foundation of language creation, which she dices into roughly six blocks: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammatical rules of verbs, and nouns and what they indicate. A history of Simlish, the language that defined The Sims 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Although it could stand grammatical improvement, his statement was, on one hand, on target, and on the other, stunningly naive. Illinois Editorial Roundup: 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z So many of us are confused and afraid of taking our grammatical kayaks into these rapids. Opinion | There’s still room for additional English refinement 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z “I’m also using cardboard crowns for my students to learn grammatical categories such as nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Different grammar kingdoms, so to say.” Teacher uses skin-tight anatomy bodysuit to give health lesson to students 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Ball advises avoiding basic deal-breakers, such as spelling errors, grammatical slips and lengthy proposals that exceed word limits. Secrets to writing a winning grant 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Gretchen McCulloch, a linguist and author of “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” highlights the use of punctuation to convey tone of voice, rather than for grammatical effect, as one such evolution. You Live Your Life Online. Don’t Forget Your Manners 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z German’s notoriously complicated syntax includes male, female and neutral grammatical genders. A guide to how gender-neutral language is developing around the world 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z She said she couldn’t have written the book without the help of Doug, who typed it up and made grammatical changes while keeping the writing in her own voice. Woman tells of being raised as Pearl S. Buck’s daughter 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z They also looked at each author’s preferred grammatical structures and other linguistic patterns that unconsciously sneak into people’s writing. French playwright Molière did indeed write his own masterpieces, computer science suggests 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Shouldn’t everyone, they ask, be equally subject to the laws of grammatical gender? Opinion | What Quakers Can Teach Us About the Politics of Pronouns 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z "It doesn't make grammatical sense," the teenager said. 'False rape claim' statement 'not proper English' 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z What comes through is that capitalization was a form of emphasis, not grammatical rules. Giuliani associates nabbed for alleged campaign crimes 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The former New England Patriots wide receiver, however, was trolled mercilessly because of the grammatical errors he had in his tweet. Antonio Brown mocked on social media after asking for help with English paper 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The researchers categorized the different styles by scrutinizing the tweets’ grammatical structure. Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The “I” is, for the Party, nothing more than “the grammatical fiction,” an illusion that had to be overcome in order to achieve justice for the many. The Desperate Plight Behind “Darkness at Noon” 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Putting grammatical concerns aside, this doesn’t work as a credible defense, either. Trump's response to the whistleblower scandal comes up short (again) 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Many of them are filled with spelling and grammatical errors. Creator of Stanford Prison Experiment on Trump's camps: It's how Nazi guards behaved 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Laurel, meanwhile, discovers her true vocation as an experimental poet, giving her license to ignore grammatical rules and to embrace language as it’s spoken. Review: A captivating new novel about word-obsessed twins 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Another group of researchers analysed the relationship of various grammatical categories to fake news. Could language be the key to detecting fake news? | David Shariatmadari 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z The original résumé was full of typos and grammatical errors, according to the SEC settlement. ‘We must do it’: Deutsche Bank allegedly hired children of Russian, Chinese officials to win work 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z For that reason, once a word has become a grammatical marker, rather than something that carries a concrete meaning, you do not need it to be fully fleshed out. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The grammatical article is right there on many of the school’s seal, logos and signs. The Ohio State University wants to trademark its favorite word: ‘The’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The harsh grammatical corrections of their elders create a clear disincentive. Review | As a language dies, who will mourn? Should anyone? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The scary thing about these phishing attacks is they were very credible and thus believable – which differs from more run-of-the-mill phishing attacks that are riddled with language and grammatical errors. China may be trying to hack US utilities, report says 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z In fact, some work has been done on the personality traits of people who get irritated by what they perceive to be grammatical errors. What Jacob Rees-Mogg's language rules reveal about him | David Shariatmadari 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z It lost its full meaning, becoming merely a grammatical particle. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Prof Murphy says Mr Rees-Mogg's style guide does not necessarily relate to grammatical rules or other language rules, but seems more aimed "at preserving his antique vibe". Is Jacob Rees-Mogg right to ban these words? 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Putting the word “most” at the beginning was a grammatical gaffe. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z George had squeezed out nothing but a vague awareness of the grammatical errors in the text. “Son of Friedman” 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing coverage and inconsistencies. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Move on from gotcha moments in White House reporting 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Another form that linguistic change often takes is grammaticalisation: a process in which a common phrase is bleached of its independent meaning and made into a word with a solely grammatical function. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z That comma is fascinating, perhaps a child’s grammatical error, yet already implying, as curator Paul Moorhouse notes in his catalogue essay, “an unfolding process”. Cindy Sherman: ‘I enjoy doing the really difficult things that people can’t buy’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z I’m too old to know the difference, but “a night of grammatical debauchery” — oh my! — sure does sound entertaining. Forget June gloom — These 5 L.A. literary events will brighten your week 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Not only are they rife with spelling and grammatical errors, they often veer toward political commentary or momentary reactions to news and opinion segments. Trump sows confusion with tweet conceding Russia helped him win the 2016 election 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In fact, studies find that grammatical gender in natural languages does affect gender inequality and essentialism in gender categorization. We Should All Use They/Them Pronouns ... Eventually 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But this change in pronunciation is only evident when “going to” is grammatical, not when it is a verb describing real movement. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for her, her tattoo had a grammatical error. Famous spelling errors from Trump to Nasa 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In addition to “familiar fixes for spelling and grammatical errors,” Ideas in Word will also offer “advice on more concise and inclusive language,” according to Microsoft. Microsoft harnesses AI to make Word politically correct 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Be Best – the grammatical integrity of the phrase has been challenged – is focused on “well-being”, “online safety” and “opioid abuse”, aiming to educate children and parents and promote relevant programmes and services. Is Melania Trump's Be Best campaign doomed by her husband’s presidency? 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z One reason is connected to Hanna et al.’s observation that, without grammatical gender, people can still gender themselves. We Should All Use They/Them Pronouns ... Eventually 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Ronald is already busy devising the words and grammatical structures, heavily influenced by Finnish, that will form the basis of his Elvish tongues. Review: 'Tolkien' fails to open a window into the mind behind 'The Lord of the Rings' 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Typos, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors are irritants to some, sources of mirth to others and can lead to ridicule for those responsible. Famous spelling errors from Trump to Nasa 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z An ambitious student who wants to protect her stellar GPA, Zoe patiently listens as Janine first reviews a litany of minor grammatical and stylistic lapses, from a missing comma to a lack of parallelism. Review: ‘Niceties’ at the Geffen turns a college history paper into revolutionary war 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z At which point, the Special Counsel’s starship finds itself sucked into a space that is dominated by the absence of matter – or in grammatical terms, an entire universe of double negatives. Of course Trump colluded with Russia. But unfortunately that's not a crime | Richard Wolffe 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The differences between grammatical gender systems in natural languages provide a fruitful basis for empirical research. We Should All Use They/Them Pronouns ... Eventually 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Key grammatical features include the warping of tenses for emphasis. Smooth, angry, cool, powerful: how we talk about blackness 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The letter, which contained several spelling and grammatical errors, was published by the Register. Suspect in murder of standout Spanish amateur golfer indicates he may plead guilty - Golf Digest 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z This conversation was the last truly cogent exchange we ever had—which is to say that it involved grammatical sentences uttered by two people on the opposite sides of an abyss. Family Medicine 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Word choice or grammatical issues could make Ms. Klobuchar especially furious, not only in prepared text but also in office meetings or common speech. How Amy Klobuchar Treats Her Staff 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Deep down, we’re all using grammatical rules and communication laws without a moment’s consideration. Chimpanzees ‘talk’ just like humans. It’s time to realise how similar we are | Jules Howard 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z For example, a Google Scholar search for ““increasing attention” source:Nature” produces 3,160 sentences that contain this phrase in Nature articles, thus showcasing a range of grammatical structures for novice writers to re-use. How to write effectively for international journals 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The old model translated text one word at a time, leading to plenty of mistakes, as the system failed to account for grammatical factors like verb tense and word order. Google’s head of translation on fighting bias in language and why AI loves religious texts 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Putting aside the president’s odd grammatical errors – maybe someday, he’ll learn how quotation marks work – there are some substantive issues to consider in the wake of his little rant. Trump's latest Twitter tantrum raises awkward legal questions 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z A look at some of his recent statements, complete with grammatical Twitter errors, and how they compare with the facts: AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s thin grasp of trade, science policy 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z As though to “be best” is grammatical and not the clumsy articulation of a child. Opinion | You are in Melania Trump’s nightmare forest. Keep to the path. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z He continues, “This is another art, and we haven’t yet discovered the grammatical language.” How Nonny de la Peña, the “Godmother of VR,” Is Changing the Mediascape 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z After reading the article, I realized it was just a grammatical goof that could have been avoided by placing “in a political way” in another place. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Too much Trump, and not enough on Ulysses S. Grant 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Having used Smart Compose, I find that it helps me write emails more quickly while avoiding careless grammatical errors. Opinion | Use technology to extend your voice, not replace it 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But sometimes, the need for accuracy and fairness trumps grammatical style. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Barrymore's representatives said she "did not participate" in the interview, which was notable for a number of grammatical and spelling errors. Apology over EgyptAir Barrymore article 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The article, riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors, led with a description of Barrymore as “being unstable in her relationships” and quoted her as saying that motherhood was “the most important role in my life.” EgyptAir seeks to shift blame for Drew Barrymore interview 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The article is oddly opinionated and is riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors. Drew Barrymore denies doing bizarre interview with EgyptAir's in-flight magazine as airline stands by article 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Many of the site’s stories are similar to the divisive content that Russian trolls circulated on social media in 2016, down to their conspiratorial tone and telltale grammatical errors. Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight? 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The poet Wayne Koestenbaum calls it “organising lava”, this pleasure to be got from “pushing a sentence in a wrong direction without altering its sweet grammatical composure”. How to write the perfect sentence 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Many decades later, I used the sketch “At the Movies” in my English as a Second Language class to teach a certain grammatical point. Calendar Letters: All the little details of Paul Simon 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z A debate on the new names lasted 90 minutes, and included grammatical input from a Cornish history expert. Council adds apostrophe to Land's End 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Two that were duplicated hundreds of times made the very same grammatical mistake. Copycat comments, unwitting patients become part of federal rulemaking process 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z The Capital Burger — not Capital Burger, since the grammatical article suggests the proper power and prestige — is the debut outlet of this “luxury burger experience.” Review | A steakhouse chain makes the cut with its tasty new burger joint 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z According to the Digital Forensic Research Lab analysis, certain posts on the Resisters page displayed grammatical errors that suggested they were written by native Russian speakers. How Fake Influence Campaigns on Facebook Lured Real People 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z German is also increasingly adopting English grammatical forms, while in Swedish its influence has been changing the rules governing word formation and phonology. Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It was a stunning comment from an American president — one that he partially tried to walk back 24 hours later by blaming a grammatical glitch. Tumult of Trump’s Europe trip smashes presidential precedent 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z “A few grammatical tweaks,” he writes, “and a woefully incomplete idea becomes a promising question to explore.” Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? That’s an Easy One 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The USAReally site appears oddly amateurish and obviously Russian, with grammatical flubs and links to Russian social networks. Russian bots, trolls test waters ahead of US midterms 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z When you are learning a language, a marked accent is usually also accompanied by other features, like limited vocabulary or grammatical mistakes. Opinion | Everyone Has an Accent 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Precise words, like facts, mean little to Trump, as interpreters, who struggle to translate his grammatical anarchy, can attest. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The reviewer, a sympathetic professor of psychiatry, bravely attempted to explain such forbidding phrases as “the grammatical structure of transformational mythology.” Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z They included at least one grammatical error: “pour,” which he later corrected to “pore.” In a Fox-Inspired Tweetstorm, Trump Offers a Medley of Falsehoods and Misstatements 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Burdett cited grammatical errors in ordering that the story be taken down, Ms. Stack said. Hard News. Angry Administration. Teenage Journalists Know What It’s Like. 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z University of Illinois language historian Dennis Baron says early pronoun scrappers were usually more concerned with grammatical correctness over a keen commitment to inclusivity in avoiding the generic “he” and singular “they” as a replacement. Gender-bending, time-traveling pronouns: A history 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The tweet, his lawyer said, contained a grammatical error — the apostrophe. Roger Stone Says He Had Little Contact With Manafort Deputy 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z But the study also showed that it is best to start by age 10 if you want to achieve the grammatical fluency of a native speaker. At What Age Does Our Ability to Learn a New Language Like a Native Speaker Disappear? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Putting aside grammatical concerns – I’ll assume the state GOP chairman meant “Democratic” district – it’s a tough sell. Political world's focus turns to Pennsylvania's special election 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Putting aside some grammatical concerns, this was a puzzling missive. Why Trump's latest request to China didn't make any sense 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The fact that the sentence does not make grammatical sense has only added fuel to the debate about what its true meaning is. Four key dates that shaped the US gun debate 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z They don’t have specific linguistic and grammatical rules or accepted vocabularies. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z However, an unnamed Republican aide said the amendments were grammatical changes and "minor edits", including two tweaks requested by the FBI and by Democrats. FBI memo 'not aimed at Russia inquiry' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z They usually lack the many word-endings that make Latin or Russian tricky, and often dispense with French-style grammatical genders, even when their parent languages have them. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z But grammatical intuitions are more deeply disturbed by the addition of new pronouns, which is why invented ones like “ze” have failed to spread widely. Personal pronouns are changing fast 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z You don’t need to understand what “authority” is, you just need to look for basic grammatical components, like the subject and object of a sentence. No, machines can’t read better than humans 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z There is a rule of thumb that whenever somebody writes to complain about a grammatical mistake in an article, the letter is bound to contain at least one mistake of its own. Opinion | Tables are girls, not boys 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Writing in the journal Nature, Plotkin and colleagues describe how they tracked different types of grammatical changes across the ages. Resistance to changes in grammar is futile, say researchers 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The Victorians decided that splitting an infinitive was a grammatical mistake, and some people still agree with them. To boldly go for it: why the split infinitive is no longer a mistake 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The comma, however, was not originally intended as a grammatical mark, but a place to pause for breath. The power of the comma 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As if the Seahawks’ dad-trying-to-pull-off-an-Oregon-Ducks-jersey aesthetic didn’t feel dated enough already, they went ahead and slapped it on a light beer can with a slogan that makes as much grammatical sense as pig latin. Ranking every 2017 Bud Light NFL team can - Golf Digest 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z What Nim's sentence lacks is not just conceptual complexity but grammatical orderliness. Yes, We Can Communicate with Animals 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z He’s not about actually helping people fix their grammatical misstatements, he’s just grumbling. Game of Thrones, The Spoils of War is the dragon payoff we’ve been waiting for 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Beyond the grammatical mistake, this was even more glaring because of its unintended irony. Opinion | Beware the homonyms 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z So the comma in this sentence is not grammatical, but stylistic. The power of the comma 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Duncan Bould, prosecuting, said the letters, along with the other reports, "bore the significant hallmarks of poor spelling and grammatical errors". Dyslexic ex-sergeant Colin Hughes jailed for forgery - BBC News 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z This grammatical complexity emerges quite early in child development, beginning in the second year of life and exploding with full force in the third year of life. Yes, We Can Communicate with Animals 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z These distinctive words, word clusters and grammatical constructions highlight her writerly preoccupations: states of mind and feeling, her characters’ unceasing efforts to understand themselves and other people. The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z There were still another few weeks to make changes, but they could be only minor grammatical things. David Sedaris: Why Aren’t You Laughing? 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Now, even though the two men were using “hope” in the same grammatical construction, the difference in mood could not be more pronounced. Trump vs. Comey: Hope Against Hope 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Vaishnav, 37, who works at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the flier looked official at first glance, but he noticed a grammatical error that led him to believe it might be fake. The immigration fliers were fake but they created real anger in a D.C. neighborhood 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z One even suggested Sir Winston himself, no grammatical slouch he, wouldn’t even notice. A Churchill quote on U.K.’s new 5-pound note is stirring controversy: Report 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “The author is not responsible for typos and grammatical errors, folks,” wrote Myra Lawrence, after a slew of critical comments from pro-Trump posters who used Baldwin’s statement as a chance to attack the actor. Alec Baldwin accuses HarperCollins of sloppy editing on his memoir 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z He said that even linguists like himself, or well-trained imams who have memorized the Quran, will make occasional grammatical errors if called upon to speak the language spontaneously. Learning Arabic from Egypt’s Revolution 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z That is, until she was observed by a senior teacher who criticised her students for making too many grammatical mistakes. Japan turns to Basil Fawlty in race for Olympic English - BBC News 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “People of color” is too close, in my mind, to “colored people,” just a small grammatical shift away from a term tainted by the ugliness of segregation. What Racial Terms Make You Cringe? 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z And a poorly constructed essay, or one marred by punctuation and grammatical errors, can sour even a great application. Opinion | Five myths about college admissions 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z It defied a bit of grammatical gravity, the defendant argued. What we learned about Neil Gorsuch during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z An insider there said, “She reads every story, and calls when there are grammatical errors or typos.” The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In the hurly-burly of a newsroom, where even the best reporters have widely varying degrees of grammatical competence, copy editors are the often unheralded guardians of language and common sense. Bill Walsh, copy editor and witty authority on language, dies at 55 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The Singaporean government rallies against it at every turn with Speak Good English campaigns, to the detriment of some extremely interesting grammatical structures. From Seaspeak to Singlish: celebrating other kinds of English 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z I am incredibly curious about the extraordinary document, complete with grammatical errors and spelling errors and absolutely profound scientific misstatements! Friday Mailbag: A Surprising Advertisement and Some Missing Fathers 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z At the pasta course—either spaghetti with caponata or sweet-corn ravioli, which was actually just one big specimen—a waiter had a grammatical question. Per Se’s Seven-Course Kids’ Menu 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The grammatical chaos of this sentence reflects a broader confusion. Why the UK must put Trump’s America last | Joseph O’Neill 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The most instrumental phrase in Trump’s rhetoric — his slogan, “Make American Great Again” — creates a grammatical and semantic mess for translators in some languages, according to an article in the Spanish newspaper El País. ‘Make America big again’? The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages. 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Emails you send on Mondays contain more grammatical mistakes than those sent on other days. 10 things we didn't know last week - BBC News 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Castro’s corrections were factual and grammatical rather than ideological, she added. Fidel Castro worked on Gabriel García Márquez's manuscripts 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Also, Pidgin hardly follows standard grammatical rules so "you can lose things like verbs", by saying: 'I dey go' to mean 'I'm going'. Pidgin - West African lingua franca - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I would only add one other tell-tale sign: the grammatical insistence on referring to oneself in the third person. Watching the Trump Spectacle Overseas 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Each video was three seconds long and followed a similar grammatical pattern. AI that lip-reads 'better than humans' - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z In another email addressed to “Dad, Mom,” Ms. Clinton seemed apologetic, writing, “I hope this mini-behemoth is not rife with grammatical errors or inadvertent gaps; I am sorry if either true.” Chelsea Clinton’s Frustrations and Devotion Shown in Hacked Emails 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z So I’ve always thought, and do still believe with the passion of one whose knuckles were rapped for grammatical errors. Do commas still matter? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Michael O’Laughlin, the director of the interpreter training program at Boston University, said in an affidavit the Spanish letter was incomplete, inaccurate and filled with grammatical errors. When a state’s drug chemist lies for years, should all her cases be thrown out? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z For example, the sentence "you eat fish" in the Aboriginal languages Iwaidja and Gundjeihmi shares only one cognate element, a grammatical particle that marks the tense of verbs. Why Australia is home to one of the largest language families in the world 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Wallace had his reasons for grammatical zealotry in the classroom, but it wasn’t about being Gradgrindian or prescriptive. David Foster Wallace, my teacher 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The revolutionary idea was that a computerlike program could produce sentences real people thought were grammatical. What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Hacking through the first part of this sentence is a grammatical and phonetic trial. Ford Tough Ford Trucks ford tough Ford Tough Truck ford 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Don't let careless grammatical or spelling errors erode your professionalism or negatively impact your candidacy for the job. 7 Tips for Writing Better Emails and Cover Letters 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z All this grammatical structure, genetic data and uniquely human behavior implies something Wolfe cannot abide: that our language is — horrors! — the result of . . . evolution! His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “You do not make grammatical errors when you’re swinging for the fences,” Wallace said during the first class, only instead of “errors”, he used a word I’m assuming is unprintable in British newspapers. David Foster Wallace, my teacher 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z About 30 different grammatical features define the characteristics of a subject. What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z At the end of the show, I said Americans deserve a president who can speak grammatical English. Sean Hannity’s Veneration of Ignorance 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z In a language with sixty thousand words, there are approximately a hundred billion trillion ten-word combinations that make grammatical sense. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Each sentence contained at least one grammatical error, which was annotated by Cambridge University, but they lacked other grammatical and syntactic data. The English of non-native speakers could make smarter computers 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z As president and candidate, George W. Bush spoke with manifest confidence and frequent grammatical indifference. Habla Español? Tim Kaine Is Latest Candidate to Use Spanish 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z A key flaw in Chomsky’s theories is that when applied to language learning, they stipulate that young children come equipped with the capacity to form sentences using abstract grammatical rules. What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z But for a humble editor, imagining that kind of grammatical reversal being forced upon them makes them want to quit their job for a more sensible line of work. How to Write Like Antonin Scalia 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “Looking at their writing, they’re using complete sentences with almost no grammatical errors or spelling errors,” she said. Teachers give passing marks to full-day kindergarten 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Women’s tend to be longer, and more grammatical, romantic and supportive. How the psychology of public bathrooms explains the ‘bathroom bills’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “My kids shouldn’t be leaving my room with just an understanding of basic grammatical rules and sentence structure,” said Armstrong, who graduated from Augustana College. English class in Bettendorf tackles environmental issues 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z But then they assume that when more complex constructions emerge, this new stage reflects the maturing of a cognitive capacity that uses universal grammar and its abstract grammatical categories and principles. What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Understanding the grammatical structure of a sentence is key to helping computers act on their meaning. Google is giving away the tool it uses to understand language, Parsey McParseface 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z And in a back corner of the classroom, another Cedar Shoals student struggled with the classic grammatical conundrum of when to use the verbs “lie” and “lay.” Artist’s ‘Chalk Talk’ prompts students to think about life 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The title suggests the grammatical no-no that every educated young person takes pride in avoiding, before she learns that avoiding it at all costs is an embarrassing overcorrection. The Sexual Politics of Syntax 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z In either case, with the AP now defecting in this fever-pitched grammatical battle, there will likely only be a few holdouts left carrying the banner of "the Internet." The Associated Press style guide will no longer capitalize 'internet' 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Rather young children begin by learning simple grammatical patterns; then, gradually, they intuit the rules behind them bit by bit. What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Not as a matter of rhetorical style, where the president is glib and grammatical, while the developer is rambling and coarse. Trump Is Obama Squared 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z It seems unlikely that he spoke in entirely grammatical fashion, though perhaps he did. Volunteer finds letter written for dying soldier by Walt Whitman 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z A recent poem, “Interlude: Thought Provoking Matter,” suggests the almost minatory allure of grammatical tangles: The Sexual Politics of Syntax 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Yes, that means the grammatical tyranny of the internet as a proper noun is nearly dead. The Associated Press style guide will no longer capitalize 'internet' 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Thus, young children initially speak with only concrete and simple grammatical constructions based on specific patterns of words: “Where’s the X?” What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Writers of real grammars do not class mere spelling mistakes as grammatical errors. Think you’s good at grammar? Try my seven golden rules | Jeremy Butterfield 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Judging from the grammatical errors, Gui said she didn't believe her father was the author. Daughter of 'disappeared' Hong Kong book publisher won't be silent 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It extended even to matters of language: Although his English was fluent, he peppered it with French circumlocutions and grammatical constructions. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, U.N. secretary general who clashed with U.S., dies 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z But unlike Malcolm, Muhammad made grammatical errors in his speeches and stumbled over words he did not recognize. This Is What Happened When Muhammad Ali Met Malcolm X 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Many proponents of universal grammar accept this characterization of children’s early grammatical development. What’s universal grammar? Evidence rebuts Chomsky’s theory of language learning 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z “I said iz does not end here in my mind,” Mr. Nelson wrote in a statement to the police, titled “My story,” which was full of grammatical and spelling errors. For Victims, an Overloaded Court System Brings Pain and Delays 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z It's a dead-end street if you are using cliché phrases, making grammatical or spelling mistakes or writing poorly. 4 Tweaks to Perfect Your Resume – and Score an Interview 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The ministry of culture and communication says it's "nearly impossible to correctly write French" on keyboards sold in the country today, meaning that the language's strict grammatical rules are being flouted more regularly. France wants a new keyboard to protect its language 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z There's not a lot of difference, besides a tiny bit of grammatical editing. Drew Weing reveals 'The Creepy Casefiles of Margo Maloo' book cover 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z In this early form of Arabic, writing styles developed and grammatical rules changed, and Dr Shah says the Birmingham manuscript is simply inconsistent with such an early date. Birmingham's ancient Koran history revealed - BBC News 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Judge Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale, writing for the majority, said the song was “incredibly profane and vulgar” and contained “numerous spelling and grammatical errors.” Hip-Hop Stars Support Mississippi Rapper in First Amendment Case 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z This theory, Bernhard contended, would explain the fragment’s grammatical errors and oddities. Is ‘The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ a revelation or a hoax? 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z But as the United States Embassy in Moscow revealed in its social media accounts on Wednesday, the letters — packed full of grammatical errors — were obvious fakes. Russian Newspaper’s Scoop? Based on Fake Letters, U.S. Says 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Leave aside the grammatical error — he should have said “fewer” philosophers. Foolish economic policy wins the fourth GOP debate 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Despite this rich variety—for comparison, Europe contains about 280 languages—linguists have only analyzed the grammatical structures of a fraction of the South Pacific island’s languages. One thousand different words for water 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Its example conversations frequently contain grade-school-level grammatical errors, switching between formal and informal forms of the verb or mismatching verbs and subjects. How an industry of ‘Amazon entrepreneurs’ pulled off the Internet’s craftiest catfishing scheme 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Then researchers and companies would write grammatical rules for machine-translation systems. Businesses Try to Fix Machine Translation 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Republicans denounced Cappola’s language in the 223-page book, which took aim at numerous groups and contained many spelling and grammatical errors. GOP picks successor to man who quit race after book fallout 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Some of them are grammatical corrections of the lengthy inscription. Joke's on the ECB with Bulgarian 'standby art' 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z They aren't awful, they just include needless grammatical and spelling errors more often than not, and what's worse is they are often quite boring. 3 Steps to Write a Standout College Scholarship Essay 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The report also found that Flood provided grammatical and minor editorial suggestions for a player’s paper to complete a course. Rutgers coach suspended for illegal contact with faculty member 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z "But I published them — typos, grammatical infelicities, naiveté, and all — for people who might enjoy them, and that still holds." 10,000 zines and counting: a library's quest to save the history of fandom 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z He loved to have her drive him around, and dubbed her, with surprising grammatical accuracy, as “my little chauffeuse.” President Harding, his mistress and her bestseller 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z But I need to say that Adorno was renowned for losing his own grammatical hold on the language he loved once someone got him excited. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z It genuinely was a bit of a grammatical nightmare. D.C. United almost had a different name 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Police on Friday said the online message, which contained many grammatical errors, didn’t clearly explain why he wanted to kill Mr. Lippert. South Korean Man Arrested Over Alleged Death Threat Against U.S. Ambassador 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Do you want to risk turning off potential clients, employers and connections because of grammatical mistakes? 6 Common Grammatical Errors and How to Correct Them 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Looking past some of the grammatical errors, Rubio’s ideological case is dubious. Rubio: 'More Scalias and less Sotomayors' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But I need to say that Adorno was renowned for losing his own grammatical hold on the language he loved once someone got him excited. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Watch for phishing emails that include “urgent” news, typos and grammatical errors, and incomplete names. Northwestern MutualVoice: 8 Tips For Getting And Keeping Good Credit 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors tend to spark the ire of readers of news sites. What makes a tweet believable? - BBC News 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Here are six grammatical errors that are so simple, yet such common offenders. 6 Common Grammatical Errors and How to Correct Them 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Similarly, grammar questions will also involve working with grammatical mistakes in context, rather than in isolated sentences. Revise Your Prep Plan for Success on the Revised PSAT 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z For example, children with SLI might be presented with sentences whose grammatical structures are too complex to be learned as chunks, increasing the likelihood of engaging the impaired grammatical system. Memory System May Overcome Diverse Disorders 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z This is a perfect sentence, partly because of its grammatical flaw, and these colourful phrases brighten the dark themes of southern gothic novels to make for surprisingly joyful reading. Why southern gothic rules the world 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The extra grammatical attention hovering around their franchise failed to help their fans, who finished in 24th place. New York Mets fans win the World Series … of bad grammar 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Emails from scam artists often contain multiple grammatical mistakes and spelling errors – more so than the typical smartphone typist. How Older Adults Can Stay Safe When Dating Online 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z In its brief for the case settled yesterday, EPA described the text of the law as “a grammatical mess” and “convoluted.” In wake of court defeat, opponents of Obama’s climate rule tee up seven more attacks 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Typically developing kids generally combine individual words into phrases and sentences, but the grammatical deficits of children with SLI impair this process. Memory System May Overcome Diverse Disorders 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Crystal says my boss prefers a formal grammatical structure and dislikes casual greetings. This email software knows you, who you're writing to -- offers advice 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Webster would surely be pleased to know that modern Americans are beginning to come around to his grammatical pronouncements. Noah Webster Would Have Loved Urban Dictionary 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Have a friend double-check your résumé for spelling and grammatical errors, and always tell the truth. 10 Tips For Spring Cleaning Your Career 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Even if you think certain grammatical rules are arcane—such as preposition positioning—know that not every reader will agree with you. NetAppVoice: What's The Best Advice You've Had? (Here Are My Top 9) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Simply putting together a group of words that reads well without a single grammatical error or typo won’t cut it. The Anatomy of a Winning Content Marketing Campaign 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z He said the email was sent from an address in Germany and contained grammatical mistakes not typical for a native Ukrainian speaker. Ukraine conflict: Email claim for Kiev killings 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z As Kroll staffers imaged Stewart’s computer and searched through boxes of documents, they discovered oddly similar grammatical errors in the audit reports for the bank’s numerous loan customers. A Billion-Dollar Mirage 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z It should be basically grammatical and follow some rules of natural language, but more important is telling a story or creating an absurd image in the reader’s head. "Madam, I'm Adam": Meet the World Palindrome Champion 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Our grammatical sloppiness is even more basic than those common bugaboos. 5 Simple Grammar Mistakes That Even Smart Students Make 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Filler words are used in speech because “we’re programmed to be nervous about making grammatical errors,” she adds. Five Ways to Train Your Voice to Sound Powerful 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z His method for finding the nonsense papers was sophisticated, requiring a statistical technique similar to spam e-mail detection, but based on grammatical patterns rather than on keywords like “Viagra.” Hoax-detecting software spots fake papers 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z |
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