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grammatical number –“There Is”/”There are” depends on plurality of
Yes, you should trust your ear. This topic comes up a lot. Your question involves an existential construction. It is safest (imo) to consider that the dummy pronoun “there” to be the grammatical...
View Articlegrammar – Would the rejection of an argument because of a grammatical error be a
If they meant it, then yes. Most often (and slightly more on topic for this site, since it does actually relate to the use of the English language), it’s not a fallacy, but a rhetorical technique. If I...
View Articlegrammar – What is the grammatical function of “a Catholic” in “She was raised a
1. In his mother was raised a Catholic, the phrase a Catholic is a subject complement. A subject complement serves to assign a property to the subject (or sometimes to describe identity, but not here)....
View ArticleHumans innately impose grammatical structure on to languages that they learn,...
Humans innately impose grammatical structure on to languages that they learn, suggests research co-authored by a linguist from Queen Mary University of London. The study found that when people place...
View ArticleGrammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of...
16 hours ago by Larry Hardesty Computer scientists at MIT and Israel’s Technion have discovered an unexpected source of information about the world’s languages: the habits of native speakers of those...
View ArticleCommon French grammatical mistakes | Oh La La, I Speak French!
Learning to speak French perfectly well is obviously a serious challenge. The language has many traps ready for foreigners to fall into. That’s why I’ve put together a list of some very common mistakes...
View Articlegrammar – Which grammatical features does English lack, which it is...
The non-gendered singular pronoun. German, for instance, has’man’ as a truly gender-free pronoun, it takes singular verbs and is not easily confused with other meanings. Actually, following Latin,...
View Articlegrammar – Is the construction “maker of all universe” grammatical in any English
It wouldn’t be considered grammatically correct in American English either. “Universe” is a countable noun, even though we normally think of there being just one. Here it’s used in the singular, so it...
View Articlegrammar – Is there a grammatical term for ‘extra information’ in a sentence?...
When we think of “additional” or “extra” parts of the sentence like this we are thinking about functions not parts of speech or types of phrase. The proper terms for this type of function is ADJUNCT....
View Articlegrammar – In “Lucifer Rising”– grammatical explanation for use of -ing form
Titles of films are often phrases rather than complete sentences. In this case, “Lucifer Rising” is an example. Grammatically, this is a noun phrase, composed of a noun “Lucifer,” and an -ing verb form...
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