Sentences with phrase «by grammarians»

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?

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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?

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?

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».