Word Watch: SOS grammar
As in so many areas of life now, language is used aggressively to control how we think.
As in so many areas of life now, language is used aggressively to control how we think.
This ungrammatical construction appears repeatedly in modern English, both written and spoken.
The term “hang in” is a jumbled up Americanism of the British expression to “hang on.”
Since when has “question mark” come to replace the word “question”?
A deep dive into the linguistic history of well-known, but often little understood English words and phrases.
If you want to write a good sentence, you must learn to love the full stop. Love it above all other punctuation marks, and see
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