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There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.
For English language learners, mastering idioms is vital for academic and professional success. Proficiency exams like IELTS ...
A recent cartoon by The New Yorker 's Emily Flake perfectly captures how one of the most agonizing debates between grammar nerds might even manage to get in the way of a marriage.
Consultation on a draft intermediate and secondary school English curriculum that prioritises Shakespeare, grammar and 19th century literature closes on Friday. English teachers told RNZ they were ...
The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic principle that lies at the base of large language models such as ChatGPT.
Simon Horobin (University of Oxford), What’s happening to English spelling? Popularly viewed as eccentric and illogical, dismissed by linguists as fixed and therefore uninteresting, English spelling ...
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added new words from various languages, acknowledging their common usage in English. These additions include terms from South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore ...
This writer set up a 'grammar table' to bring people together over a love of language Ellen Jovin has hosted friendly discussions across the U.S. — despite heated debates about the Oxford comma ...
Oxford pocket English grammar by Thomson, A. J. (Audrey Jean) Publication date 1990 Topics English language -- Grammar -- 1950-, English language -- Grammar, English language Grammar Publisher Oxford ...
Batstone, R. (1994) Grammar. Oxford University Press, Oxford. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: On Approaches to English Grammar Teaching and Its Current Situation AUTHORS: Jian Han ...