Whether you are in school or college, it is never a bad idea to have a good grammar book to improve your English. These books ensure that you know the rules of sentence formation, tenses, verbs, ...
Prepositions are short words that usually stand in front of nouns to show a relation to them. English learners find ...
We English speakers have been terribly insecure about our ability to communicate in our native tongue for at least 200 years, if the number of books aiming to correct errors in our speech and writing ...
Frank L. Cioffi taught his first college composition course in 1977. Since then, he’s read student writing at elite private colleges and urban public universities. He’s taught Comp 1 and advanced ...
What makes books about the decline of traditional grammar and usage so popular? Books like Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots & Leaves lament the downfall of traditional punctuation standards and promise a ...
Be careful where you put that preposition. Prepositions, participles, who and whom and more are the focus of the new documentary “Grammar Revolution.” The film was made by two former teachers, David ...
PORT ANGELES — The language of the Klallam people took another deep breath last week. A 392-page hardcover tome, humbly titled Klallam Grammar, was cause for celebration at the Elwha Klallam Heritage ...
Millennials can’t even with your bad grammar and spelling. That’s according to a poll conducted by Harris for Dictionary.com, which found that 74% of Americans ages 18 to 34 are annoyed by grammar and ...
New grammar book for the CHamoru language has just been published. The author, Sandra Chung, a linguistics professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, spent 11 years working on "Chamorro ...