Sentences with word «grammarian»

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.

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

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

Indeed, Gwynne quotes a fellow grammarian who turns the charge on its head: «It's cruel not to teach children grammar.»

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.»

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

Grammarians argue that the word is being used improperly, urging you to use «affect» instead, but businesses love it.

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).

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.

Thus, grammarians insisted on what they considered to be number agreement between the pronoun and its antecedent, ignoring gender agreement.

Staff writer, copy editor, resident grammarian at Land - Grant Holy Land.

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.

Google values high - quality content and while the evaluation process doesn't include a roomful of grammarians checking for «your» vs. «you're,» bad content doesn't serve (or influence) anyone.

Mark — You're so right that you need publishing professionals, not just grammarians.

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

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?

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.

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

Make spell check and a good grammarian friend your ally.

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.

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

Only a relatively small number of students who learned to read advanced to the next stages of education, where they were taught by grammarians, teachers who were proficient in letters (grammata)-- that is, literature.

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

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

But as Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman detail in On Language: All - Purpose Pronoun and Sex Symbols, blame for this rule can't be traced to a cabal of misogynistic 18th - Century grammarians.

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 incorrect version of this phrase is accepted in some grammarian circles, the better choice for professional and formal writing and speaking is «supposed to.»

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.

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

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.

And indeed, the preacher should be, in the ancient sense, a grammarian, at home in letters, languages, eloquence and the classics.

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.

If scribes are people whose wisdom has been certified by credentials of one sort of another (the Greek word that Paul uses literally means «grammarians»), then we have more than enough of those; that, indeed, is the category to which I belong, my particular «grammar» being that of the modern social sciences.

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.»

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.

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.»

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?»

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

The grammarians preferred Euripides to the other tragedians, because his language was simpler and his style more rhetorical.

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

«That's like a grammarian talking, not a fifth grader.»