HOW TECHNOLOGY MURDERED THE SPELLING SKILLS
ReportersOne of the inherent problems of the invention of the electronic media is the adverse effect on the spelling skills.…
Read MoreHOW ABSOLUTE ARE THE ABSOLUTE ADJECTIVES
In the use of words today, some published materials in book forms or articles are believed to be perfect in…
Read MoreLangtivism | 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 | PERENNIAL POSER OVER THE USE OF BETWEEN AND AMONG
By RAHAMAN ONIKE The prepositions among and between have always been subjects of controversy, for many grammarians believe that between…
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 MoreLANGTIVISM | BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH
Mutiu OlawuyiTwo varieties together account for upwards of 400 million speakers with the United States having approximately four times the population…
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 MoreGRAMMAR WORLD | LINGUISTIC MURDER – “WILL” HASÂ ELIMINATED “SHALL”
Many people do not know that the auxiliary verbs WILL and SHALL can be used interchangeably. Some define possibility and…
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 MoreEDUPEACE | Restoring order, shaping peace together
Mahfouz AdedimejiThe truth is that we are not only homo sapiens (human being) but are also homo religiousus (religious being), 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 MoreGrammar World | How Important Are Articles in Sentence Structures?
One of the linguistic constraints of some users of the English Language especially the class with some levels of competence…
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 MoreGRAMMAR WORLD: A HOTEL OR AN HOTEL
General Introduction One of the problems in the use of the English is the choice between A or An. Users…
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 MoreGrammar World: Pluralization in English
Language scholars know that all languages share some characteristics that are peculiar to all of them. These shared features make…
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.…
Read MoreIvanka Trump and USAID’s Mark Green Met Ethiopian Women in Coffee Association Entrepreneurs
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 15, 2019/ -- Today, Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump and USAID Administrator Mark Green met…
Read MoreFor a Holiday present for December For Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzza, and Peace December
BY JOURNALIST LAWRENCE SEILER, ABLED TO SPEAK UP I do not want to be Abused in my Nursing Home or…
Read MoreWhen hope was almost gone then came the brightest light in sky.
Op-Ed: Joseph Biden is an unmatched national asset and an international pride. He served this nation with honor, dignity and…
Read MoreAndrew Cuomo: Searching for Scapegoats To Blame for His Deadly Coronavirus Order
By Robert Golomb When this past March 25th Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York State Department of Health (NYSDH) issued an…
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