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...
English as a global language
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 | 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 –...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...