Langtivism | What: As Determiner, Pronoun and for Who Questions
What is one of those many useful words in the English language which have several functions. Of course, it is...
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GRAMMAR WORLD | PRESCRIPTIVISM AND DESCRIPTIVISM BETWEEN LEARNERS AND TEACHERS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Langue and Parole that developed into Linguistic competence and performance as stated by the linguists Ferdinand De Saussure and Noam...
LANGTIVISM | WRITERS AND THE USE OF PARALLELISM
One important stylistic device in the craft of writing is parallelism. How a writer uses parallelism determines the effectiveness of...
GRAMMAR WORLD | FAULTY PARALLELISM: AN IMPEDIMENT FOR MOST USERS
My suspicion was right when I condemned the label of some word classes as CLOSED FREE MORPHEMES. The linguistic implication...
LANGTIVISM | PASSIVIZATIONS AND THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN USAGE
English sentences can begin with the subject or object. This is determined by the voice a sentence takes. Voice is...
GRAMMAR WORLD | SEXISM AND LINGUISTIC SENSITIVITY IN MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE USAGE
Language is a living being. It grows, it moves, it breathes, it reproduces and dies. These features are peculiar to...
GRAMMAR WORLD | LATE JESUS?
I realized the problems of usage and interpretation when I read Ogden and Richard's explanations of the Meaning of Meaning....
LANGTIVISM | MAKING SENSE OF CONFUSABLE WORDS
The English Language has a huge vocabulary, that means the users have a wide choice of words at your fingertips...
LANGTIVISM | FOUR LEXICAL RULES THAT GUIDE EFFECTIVE WRITING
Out of the abundant principles guiding the usage, there are four lexical rules that are germane to effective writing. Any...
LANGTIVISM | THE TOP THREE GRAMMATICAL SUPERSTITIONS
Out of all the complaints about grammar, there are top three grammatical superstitions that define the dynamic nature of English...
LANGTIVISM | WRITER’S CRAFT AND THE LAW OF PROXIMITY
English language as medium of communication is not only rule guided, it also gives prominence to the law of proximity. ...
LANGTIVISM: WRITERS AND BURDEN OF REDUNDANCIES AND CIRCUMLOCUTIONS
Every writer is often constrained by certain common faults in writing, and these include redundancy, circumlocution, wordiness, over-lapping, verbosity, among...
GRAMMAR WORLD: THE ALMIGHTY FORMULA
I have decided to rest my case, for now, on PLURALIZATION . Let us do something else. Despite that there...
LANGTIVISM: MYTHS AND REALITIES OF CLICHÉS
In today’s linguistic world, one major issue widely considered as oddity of language is cliché. There are myths and realities...
LANGTIVIST: SEXISM IN LANGUAGE
Nowadays, the use of gender-based references in usage has become subject of criticism among grammarians. This is one of the...
Attitudes of the English accents among native-speakers towards non-native speakers: A critical review
Abstract English speakers present plenty of different accents in the world. Many authors have subsequently studied the attitudes of the...
GRAMMAR ZONE: COPING WITH UNCOUNTABLE OR NON-COUNT NOUNS
One of the obscure labels in the English Language that can mislead the users through their names is UNCOUNTABLE NOUN....
