GRAMMAR WORLD | PRESCRIPTIVISM AND DESCRIPTIVISM 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...
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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” HAS 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. ...
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...
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....
