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  1. Examples of grammarian. grammarian. As noted in section 1, prescriptive grammarians condemned the use of zero adverbs in the eighteenth century. From the Cambridge English Corpus. While today's language critics fault it, our 20th-century grammarians seem happy with the passive as a fact of life. From the Cambridge English Corpus.

  2. Examples of grammarian. grammarian. And, you know, grammarians think that it could undermine literacy on a global scale. From NPR. Yet no reputable prescriptivist -- not even the 18th-century grammarians -- took such a position. From New York Times.

  3. Nov 14, 2019 · Their system of analysis, essentially unaltered for two hundred years, is assumed in all dictionaries and almost all grammar textbooks today, despite its grave defects. The deepest errors stem from a longstanding confusion of category (word class) with function (grammatical or semantic relation).

  4. Word forms: grammarians. countable noun. A grammarian is someone who studies the grammar of a language and writes books about it or teaches it. Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

  5. May 3, 2013 · The Idler magazine's Bad Grammar Awards recently named and shamed a letter by academics for saying that the national curriculum demanded "too much, too young" - thus confusing an adjective and an...

  6. Aug 17, 2015 · Take the case of the split infinitivethere are numerous examples where not splitting the infinitive changes the meaning, or makes it more ambiguous, which really defeats the purpose of a grammar or style rule meant to make communication clearer, as this post shows:

  7. Grammarians can (again) employ constituency tests to shed light on the controversy.

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