Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...
In Lesson 16, you learned to express more than one action in one sentence by linking the TE-form of verbs. If you add the particle KARA (after), after the TE-form of verbs, you can make it clear that ...
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A few weeks ago, I cited several TV shows and movies that provided, of all things, grammar lessons. Then I asked you to send me more examples. As Gomer Pyle might have said, “Goll-ee!” Cindy Carlin ...
A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to become better ...
No doubt about it: Jenny Baranick is driven to improve the current state of our texting-, emailing-, and spell checker-dependent world. Why else navigate through traffic in a 2001 Toyota Corolla sedan ...