Do you remember being taught you should never start your sentences with "And" or "But"? What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we've ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 32: The Burden of Being Right Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab When it comes to language, everyone’s a little bit prescriptivist.

IN the last two weeks, we have been talking about language standards, standard language and linguistic prescriptivism. Besides one's (English) language teacher and a language editor, an average person ...

English grammar columnists in Nigerian newspapers do a great job of pointing out usage errors in news reports, editorials, and opinion articles, but they have also perpetrated a whole host of myths ...

Tue, August 28, 2012 Published on Aug. 28, 2012 Published on 2012-08-28T05:00:00+07:00 t was early in the morning Indonesian time and almost iftar time in Madison when one of my colleagues asked me ...

To understand why we’ve been getting it wrong, we need to know a little about the history of grammar teaching. Grammar is how we organise our sentences in order to communicate meaning to others. Those ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards and spelling. She is on the Board of Directors of ...