Langtivism | What: As Determiner, Pronoun and for Who Questions
Language ActivistsWhat is one of those many useful words in the English language which have several functions. Of course, it is…
Read MoreGRAMMAR WORLD | PRESCRIPTIVISM AND DESCRIPTIVISMÂ 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…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM | WRITERS AND THE USE OF PARALLELISM
Parallel grammatical structures form many of our most familiar phrases: sink or swim, live and let live, shape up or…
Read MoreGRAMMAR WORLD | FAULTY PARALLELISM: AN IMPEDIMENT FOR MOST USERSÂ
My suspicion was right when I condemned the label of some word classes as CLOSED FREE MORPHEMES. The linguistic implication…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM | PASSIVIZATIONS AND THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN USAGE
In English, there are two voices: active and passive (Forlini, 2000). When the subject of a verb performs the action,…
Read MoreGRAMMAR WORLD | SEXISM AND LINGUISTIC SENSITIVITY IN MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE USAGE
A reaction to this masculinity brought up theories like FEMINISM in literature and the theory is meant to fight gender…
Read MoreGRAMMAR WORLD | LATE JESUS?
According to the popular linguist, John Lyon and other linguists as well, two words cannot have exact same meaning in…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM | MAKING SENSE OF CONFUSABLE WORDS
Words are easier to understand once you know their history, nature, classification and structure without necessarily need to remember the…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM | FOUR LEXICAL RULES THAT GUIDE EFFECTIVE WRITING
Every writer therefore needs to master and understand the correct application of the four lexical rules and this includes the…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM | THE TOP THREE GRAMMATICAL SUPERSTITIONS
Beginning a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’ often is a way of cutting overlong sentences into two. Let’s look at…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM | WRITER’S CRAFT AND THE LAW OF PROXIMITY
When a writer breaches the law of proximity, such linguistic infraction may lead to ambiguity. For the avoidance of doubts,…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM: WRITERS AND BURDEN OF REDUNDANCIES AND CIRCUMLOCUTIONS
Redundancies come in different varieties. One common redundancy is the simple doubling of words that have the same meaning. In…
Read MoreGRAMMAR WORLD: THE ALMIGHTY FORMULA
Despite that there was and there is nothing almighty in that formula in quadratic equation in Mathematics,the name almighty can…
Read MoreLANGTIVISM: 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…
Read MoreLANGTIVIST: SEXISM IN LANGUAGE
...The criticisms have been mainly directed at the biases built into English vocabulary and grammar to reflect a traditionally oriented…
Read MoreAttitudes of the English accents among native-speakers towards non-native speakers: A critical review
English speakers present plenty different accents in the world. Many authors have subsequently studied the attitudes of the English accent…
Read MoreGRAMMAR 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.…
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