HOW TECHNOLOGY MURDERED THE SPELLING SKILLS
One of the inherent problems of the invention of the electronic media is the adverse effect on the spelling skills....
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HOW 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...
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...
GRAMMAR 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...
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 USERSÂ
My suspicion was right when I condemned the label of some word classes as CLOSED FREE MORPHEMES. The linguistic implication...
LANGTIVISM | 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...
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...
LANGTIVISM | BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH
English as a universal language has several varieties but here we are concerned with the two major national varieties –...
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...
GRAMMAR WORLD | LINGUISTIC MURDER – “WILL” HASÂ ELIMINATED “SHALL”
Do I say murder, assassination, elimination or slay? Users of the English Language in the Current Grammar have done one...
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...
EDUPEACE | Restoring order, shaping peace together
On Tuesday, September 21, 2020, the world marked the International Day of Peace, a day devoted by the United Nations...
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...
Grammar World | How Important Are Articles in Sentence Structures?
Introduction One of the linguistic constraints of some users of the English Language especially the class with some levels of...
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. ...
GRAMMAR 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...
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...
Grammar World: Pluralization in English
Language scholars know that all languages share some characteristics that are peculiar to all of them. These shared features make...
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....
Ivanka 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...
For 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...
When 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...
Andrew 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...