Linguistics
Borrow or Develop?: Enriching the English VocabularyWhen William Caxton introduced the printing press to England in 1476, English developed into a physical entity (Smith “Early”). Language no...
November 7, 2011- The Subordinator in English Grammar
Subordinators in English grammar are words that introduce subordinate or dependent clauses. The three dependent clauses in English are noun clauses,...
October 17, 2011 - The Correlator in English Grammar
Correlators in English grammar are function words that are the first word or words in pairs of conjunctions that also join...
October 16, 2011 - The Coordinator in English Grammar
Coordinators in English grammar are function words that join or link two or more words, phrases, and clauses. Function words perform...
October 15, 2011 - English Vowels: Pronunciation of Vowel Sounds in American English
American English has sixteen vowel sounds—ten monophthongs and six diphthongs—but only six vowel letters. A monophthong is a single vowel sound....
October 10, 2011 - Types of English Affixes: Derivational and Inflectional Prefixes and Suffixes
An affix is a bound morpheme that attaches to the stem of a word to form either a new word or...
October 9, 2011 - Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Determinatives
In traditional treatments of grammar, nouns are defined as words that denote a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase...
September 30, 2011 - One Must Wash Their Hands: Using “They” in the Singular and Impersonal
Most native English speakers can recall (with some trepidation) the days of fill-in-the-blank grammar exercises. Consider with me the following sentences:...
September 29, 2011 - To Boldly Go Where Most English Speakers Have Gone Before: The Split Infinitive
To split the infinitive or to not split the infinitive, that is the question. Prescriptive grammars forbid the splitting of infinitives....
September 28, 2011 - With or Without a Complement: Ending Sentences with Prepositions
What is up with the English grammar rule “do not end sentences with prepositions”? I clearly remember my grade school grammar...
September 27, 2011 - Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Indirect Objects
Nouns are traditionally defined as words that refer to a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase is a phrase...
September 26, 2011 - Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Direct Objects
Nouns have traditionally been defined as words for people, places, things, and ideas. A noun phrase consists of a noun plus...
September 25, 2011 - English Punctuation
Discover the rules for using apostrophes, braces, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, ellipses, hyphens, italics, parentheses, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, interrobangs,...
September 24, 2011 - Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subject Complements
In traditional grammar books, nouns have been defined as describing people, places, things, and ideas. Noun phrases consist of a noun...
September 23, 2011 - Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Subjects
A noun is traditionally defined as a word that denotes a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase is a...
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