GRAMMAR WORLD | PRESCRIPTIVISM AND DESCRIPTIVISMÂ BETWEEN LEARNERS AND TEACHERS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Language ActivistsLangue and Parole that developed into Linguistic competence and performance as stated by the linguists Ferdinand De Saussure and Noam…
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 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 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 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 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 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…
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