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 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 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”
Mutiu OlawuyiMany 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 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…
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