Sentences with word «grammarians»

In my experience, grammarians need to get out a bit more, maybe at least to learn that «fo» shizzle my nizzle, dawg» is in fact quite acceptable now, in modern speech - making circles.

And they employ a team approach to resume writing, which has its benefits (they say they've got grammarians on staff).

But heavens above: You can get to be a Supreme Court justice, and write about actives and passives, without having any clue how that distinction is normally defined by grammarians, and without giving any alternative definition?

«Involuntary Departures From Law Firms on the Rise Main Grammarians Parse the Second Amendment»

However, the patent specification is not addressed to grammarians, etymologists or to the public generally, but to skilled individuals sufficiently versed in the art to which the patent relates to enable them on a technical level to appreciate the nature and description of the invention...

For years, grammarians and writing gurus have bemoaned misuses of quotation marks — and these misuses are legion.

Copy editors, on the other hand, are ace grammarians and are looking at the text line by line from a technical standpoint: Is the writing comprehensible and free of typos?

Grammarians, at the very least, will welcome the change.

I mean, the grammarians of the day (such as they are) seem to consider them interchangeable, but traditionally lend is the verb and loan is the noun.

This doesn't mean writers are required to get degrees in philology or etymology or be grammarians (though a little knowledge of all these fields helps); rather, it is the interest in and attention to words and sentences, to how we communicate by these means, that sets writers apart from, say, train engineers.

At any rate, the appearance of today's grammarians, in their hoodies and sneaks, bears little resemblance to that of their forerunners.

The early grammarians were reacting to disorder, though, and they weren't afraid to leave a few people behind in their drive for structure.

There are some who are discouraged by grammarians that cruise blogs in search of run - on sentences and tense errors.

Use of «whom» is still on the decline, despite the efforts of some 19th century grammarians.

Grammarians will note that either my syntax is fractured or I left out the word «staff» between «campaign» and «haven't.»

I'll beat the grammarians in the crowd to this one: Michael, shouldn't it be «AS Admiral Ackbar says,» rather than «LIKE Admiral Ackbar says?»

Two earlier grammarians had attempted to bend «the language in order to enforce the use of «he» because, they said, «he» reflected a «natural order» and «the worthier is to be preferred.»

Despite all this, 19th century British novels show the usage of «they» and «he» with a singular antecedent to be about equal; Americans, however, being less sure of their natural language instincts and depending more on grammarians» rules when writing formally, have been more rigid about the «he.»

These men were largely ignored, but later on, male - centered grammarians took up the cause, and insistence on the use of «he» became a strong issue among grammarians in the early 19th century.

The word «allegory» here has only a literary resemblance to the allegory of the grammarians, which, Cicero tells us, «consists in saying one thing to make something else understood.»

But because the usage is a dictation of grammarians and not our instinctive one, it can be reversed.

Although the reformers did not actually say so, this meant that in effect, the grammarians, lexicographers, and historians could reform the Church because they knew better than the bishops what the Bible actually meant.

For all the grammarians out there, the «you» in Jeremiah 29:11 isn't singular, it's plural.

And, if the claims of certain universal grammarians be proven true, we might need to go to the broadest comparative context of all — the human language capacity itself.

When crotchety old grammarians complain about the debasement of language, often they are merely deploring change per se; other times they wax wroth over what seem to most of us relatively insignificant losses in precision, clarity, or beauty.

For Barth, the grammarians and historians could explain the text, but unless they engaged the theological issues that Paul addressed they could not be said to interpret Romans.

So, if you use the correct version you'll sound intelligent to the grammarians of the world but you risk alienating a certain percentage of people who will not understand your meaning.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

The wise grammarian, then, accepts verbal novelties that are useful, such as a coinage for a new phenomenon (Gwynne wouldn't object to selfie).

He gave orders that «in each bishopric and in each monastery let the psalms, the notes, the chant, calculation and grammar be taught and carefully corrected books be available».6 He also set up a school at his palace at Aachen and imported talent from different parts of Europe, including Alcuin (c.735 - 804), who had been master of the school at York, and the grammarian Paul the Deacon (c.120 - c. 800) from Italy.

A rigorous grammarian, and a serious and intimidatingly well - read Catholic, Mary Ellen had wide and unusual interests, such as the great ocean liners of the past, and was part of a reading group that included Isaac Asimov.

He observed that «you go to every polytechnic is this country and you realise that they are offering degrees in marketing, personnel management and public relations all along the lines of grammarian schools.

He called double negatives improper, and grammarian Lindley Murray (1745 — 1826) later proved this claim with algebra, even though Shakespeare was known to use a double negative occasionally.

«World over, we seem intent on splintering ourselves into as many sub-groups as it will take for us to feel comfortable in our skins again,» writes Harmony Siganporia, who in the aftermath of Brexit revisits the teachings of poet, folklorist, scholar and grammarian AK Ramanujan to further explore the meanings of context - free and context - sensitive cultures.

She is a devoted grammarian, and founded... (more)

-LSB-...] there are Julie Glover (my roomie and fellow grammarian), Tameri Etherton, and Jami Gold whom I met online through writing friend connections.

Death is something of which you could never even conceive, and please note, mister grammarian, that I did not conclude that phrase with a preposition, you human beings only know the small everyday death that is me, the death which, even in the very worst disasters, is incapable of preventing life from continuing, one day you will find out about Death with a capital D, and at that moment, you will understand the real difference between the relative and the absolute, between full and empty, between still alive and no longer alive....»

Do remember, though, that not every grammarian is an editor.

However, in this and all things, I'm prepared to be overruled by one of James Scott Bell's stogie - chomping grammarian ladies, so haul in the expert witnesses if need be and we'll submit evidentiary confections for their entertainment.

He's even learned to use the computer... he's not much of a speller or grammarian but he's found both the «delete» and «send to printer» buttons!

Re # 380: I realize Judy is an experienced scientist, not a high school grammarian, but one of the latter might have a different view of the key passage from Chu:

[Response: You are running a risk discussing language with me, son of a professor of English and grandson of a strict grammarian!

Every grammarian's favorite T - shirt slogan has been vindicated: Punctuation could really save [endanger?]

When a commenter ripped one of my posts as being «larded with stilted turns of phrase and grammatical errors,» he was incorrect about the grammar part (a trained grammarian, without my prompting, reviewed my post and found only one questionable prepositional choice) but was certainly entitled to his opinion about my writing style.

An etymologist or grammarian might agree with the appellants that a vane of any type is still a vane.

And then the third one is — and someone who has a law degree also — I think that that also is important, you could have levels that would be of editing, that would be handled by people who are not lawyers, but you should definitely have as your main editor or editors people who are also lawyers, but once you have that person who is a grammarian and a lawyer, and a great writer, how much you are going to pay these people?

Number two, it's really difficult to find people qualified to do this job because you would have to have someone who is an excellent grammarian, who is an excellent writer, and writing really well is a lot more than just understanding grammar, producing a sentence.

Writing in 1926, the grammarian H.W. Fowler said the rules are «an odd jumble, and plainly show that the language has not been neatly constructed by a master builder».

Make spell check and a good grammarian friend your ally.

Ask a friend or family member to proof, preferably one who is a meticulous speller and grammarian.