Popular TV series are probably the last places you’d expect to find grammar lessons, but occasionally the box can improve your vox. In one episode of “Sex and the City,” for instance, Carrie takes ...
The trouble with wading into rules of grammar is that you have to use terms -- subject, object, nominative, accusative -- that most of us haven't encountered since high school, and barely noticed then ...
Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...
A literacy lesson plan from a group partly funded by the Government of Canada uses a partisan example to teach people how to conjugate the verb "to vote." The lesson plan, written by Saskatchewan ...
As kids gear up for another school year, they might discover commercials and TV shows provide both deliberate and unwitting lessons in grammar. Take, for example, a particular episode of Game of ...