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GRAMMAR WORLD | FAULTY PARALLELISM: AN IMPEDIMENT FOR MOST USERS
My suspicion was right when I condemned the label of some word classes as CLOSED FREE MORPHEMES. The linguistic implication of…
LANGTIVISM | PERENNIAL POSER OVER THE USE OF BETWEEN AND AMONG
By RAHAMAN ONIKE The prepositions among and between have always been subjects of controversy, for many grammarians believe that…
LANGTIVISM | PASSIVIZATIONS AND THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN USAGE
In English, there are two voices: active and passive (Forlini, 2000). When the subject of a verb performs the action, the verb is…
GRAMMAR WORLD | SEXISM AND LINGUISTIC SENSITIVITY IN MODERN ENGLISH…
A reaction to this masculinity brought up theories like FEMINISM in literature and the theory is meant to fight gender…
LANGTIVISM | BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH
Two varieties together account for upwards of 400 million speakers with the United States having approximately four times the…
LANGTIVISM | MAKING SENSE OF CONFUSABLE WORDS
Words are easier to understand once you know their history, nature, classification and structure without necessarily need to…
GRAMMAR WORLD | LINGUISTIC MURDER – “WILL” HAS …
Many people do not know that the auxiliary verbs WILL and SHALL can be used interchangeably. Some define possibility and…
LANGTIVISM | FOUR LEXICAL RULES THAT GUIDE EFFECTIVE WRITING
Every writer therefore needs to master and understand the correct application of the four lexical rules and this includes the rule…
EDUPEACE | Restoring order, shaping peace together
The truth is that we are not only homo sapiens (human being) but are also homo religiousus (religious being), the latter being a…
LANGTIVISM | THE TOP THREE GRAMMATICAL SUPERSTITIONS
Beginning a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’ often is a way of cutting overlong sentences into two. Let’s look at a good example of…
