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Aug 30, 2019 · Grammarians aren’t obvious candidates for any kind of celebrity, and yet, surprisingly often, a select few authorities on the use of English write what turn out to be best-selling books.
- Mary Norris
“It was a little test I gave myself, and I failed it,” said...
- Benjamin Dreyer
Similarly, Dreyer takes The New Yorker, which he refers to...
- Mary Norris
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...
Lauren Leibowitz reviews Cathleen Schine’s new novel, “The Grammarians,” which illustrates different approaches to language and usage.
Jul 13, 2006 · They might observe native speakers undetected, record them in casual conversation, ask them what sounds grammatical to them, or observe what educated people write. If a sentence strikes the vast...
The past participle usually ends in -ed (yodeled, remembered), but there are plenty of exceptions to that rule, such as forgotten and gone. (The past participle is usually the same as the plain old past tense (yodeled, remembered), but not always: forgot, went.)
Oct 14, 2014 · Some things that people have been taught are rules of English grammar are really not rules at all—and some of them are flat-out wrong. There’s actually a word for this phenomenon:...
Oct 3, 2014 · Steven Pinker—the Harvard cognitive scientist who also chairs the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary—is not a fan of many of the “rules” one finds in modern guides to grammar and...
