I’m referring to the mention of linguistics as somehow being a boring subject that someone was coerced into studying
13.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This really annoyed me in today’s UK press, a day before A-level results day
13.08.2025 14:13 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Next week!
events.bl.uk/events/engli...
#EnglishGrammarDay #Grammar #EnglishLanguage
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30.06.2025 10:43 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
New Substack post: On so-called adjective clauses: a label to avoid
tinyurl.com/yc32zr4a
#grammar #adjectiveclause #TeHirangaTangata #nzcurriculum
27.06.2025 09:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
probably
21.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come to this fabulous event, hosted by Charlotte Brewer, Jonnie Robinson and me on 7 July.
tinyurl.com/36z77b29
#EnglishGrammarDay #grammar
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13.06.2025 15:29 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The question is WHY does it irritate you? Genuine question.
31.05.2025 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No, it doesn’t matter.
31.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do You Think Differently in Different Languages?
The brain’s response to information depends on language’s grammatical structure
Do our brains try to predict what’s coming next in a sentence? It may depend on the language you speak
www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
#linguistics #language #neuroscience #English #Dutch @SciAm.bsky.social
01.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
FWIW, the Guardian article says that the semicolon appears "typically between two main clauses". In your case it separates a noun phrase from a clause. But yes, you can't have a full stop or comma there. You could have a colon, though....
18.05.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You could have used one here! 🙂
18.05.2025 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book now for the English Grammar Day!
Teachers: do bring your GCSE and A-level students!
www.ucl.ac.uk/english/engl...
#EnglishGrammarDay #grammar
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03.05.2025 12:35 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New Substack post: Can clauses function as Subject?
basaarts.substack.com/p/can-clause...
#grammar
30.04.2025 16:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Together with Charlotte Brewer and Jonnie Robinson I am one of the organisers of the #EnglishGrammarDay which will take place again at the British Library on 7 July. Book here: events.bl.uk/events/engli...
04.04.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New verb 'anti-age' in The Times.
26.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The words 'wheel', 'cycle', and 'chakra' are distantly related.
Via Germanic, Greek and Sanskrit, they can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor of these languages. Sound changes made them grow apart.
Moreover, 'Ku Klux (Klan)' is related too.
Click for more:
16.03.2025 19:15 — 👍 129 🔁 28 💬 14 📌 2
New research chapter, just published: 'Verb Phrases as Attributive Nominal Modifiers'
tinyurl.com/49crkbv4
06.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New Substack post: 'Can adjective phrases function as Subject in a clause?'
basaarts.substack.com/p/can-adject...
#grammar #adjective
02.03.2025 15:22 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New Substack post: More on Predicative Complements: 'for' and 'as'
basaarts.substack.com/p/more-on-pr...
#grammar #EnglishGrammar
20.02.2025 13:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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