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The most annoying thing about auto-correct is how it removes the spaces whenever I use the — symbol. The second most annoying thing is that I’ve been using — (or, if I’m feeling lazy, the - symbol) for years, but now every stupid bot uses them religiously.

The difference between me and […]

From Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar to Categorial Grammar (and partway back again) | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core From Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar to Categorial Grammar (and partway back again)

I always say that we are one family. Pauline Jacobson, working in #CategorialGrammar, argues that the #GPSG analysis of nonlocal dependencies is right and imports this into Categorial Grammar.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226725100820

#linguistics #grammar #syntax

Red Pens 101 comes out THIS WEDNESDAY! 😱🥳

Have a bit of a sneak peek at one of the brand new topics I cover in it, determiners! They're words we hardly think about, but they do so much important work.

#Writing #Grammar #GrammarTalk #WritingAdvice

51 Signs That Put Quotation Marks In Places That Made Everything Sound Hilariously Suspicious (New Pics) Most often, quotation marks are used to show someone’s exact words, or sometimes sarcasm a...

#Fails #Funny #bad #grammar #bad #signs #fails #famous […]

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Pre-Intermediate Grammar: Questions 2 (A2/B1)
youtu.be/k7PX2P2SgUc
Here comes the second video aimed at pre-intermediate students devoted to questions. Hope you enjoy the video and find it useful.
#englishinn #english #englishin3minutes #EnglishInn3Minutes #grammar #questions

Which one? Through vs. thru vs. threw If only writers would dump the mixing up of these three words into File 13!Threw is the easy word to distinguish among these three. It means to toss, as in A movie star threw the baseball season’s …

#grammar #writingtips #amwriting #writingcommunity #amediting inventingrealityediting.com/2...

from Spill the Memes, 02_17_25 #meme #pie #baking #pun #grammar #humor

To put COULD, WOULD, SHOULD, or MIGHT in the past? Add HAVE + A PAST PARTICIPLE!

NO OF!

@sirwritesalot.bsky.social is a co-host of the @besiktaspodcast.bsky.social where a commenter broke this rule.

Be careful out there!

#LearnEnglish #StudyEnglish #grammar #English #englishlessons

Plural Worlds or Plural Mediations? Goodman Meets MEOW A colleague shared a reference to Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking (1978). I’d never heard of the book or the author, so I asked ChatGPT to compare and contrast this with MEOW, The Archit…

I crashed a thread and ran off on this tangent to compare my Architecture of Encounter.
philosophics.blog/2026/03/27/p...
ChatGPT did the heavy lifting.
#mediation #philosophy #ontology #epistemology #worldbuilding #blog #podcast #constraint #pluralism #metaphysics #grammar #systems #objectivity

Why do so many people have difficulty differentiating "breath" and "breathe"? One is a noun, the other a verb. You take a breath; that's how you breathe. It's really not complicated!

#Grammar #English #Spelling #

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"Arabische Grammatik" by Dr. phil. Ernst Harder

[Heidelberg: Groos, 1921]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/62475

#arabic #grammar

Sobremesa (Spanish) - Time spent talking and relaxing after a meal. #translation #words #Spanish #language #grammar #grammardiva #grammarbooks

An editor would fight about this: Tousle vs. tussle A lot of writers find their writing is quite disorderly where these two similar-sounding words are concerned.Tousle means to rumple or mess up, such as your hair or bed sheets. To wit, Auntie Jane …

#grammar #writingtips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers inventingrealityediting.com/2...

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You may know me from all the cat pictures I post. But I'm also an English teacher

Let me tell you how a sentence can have 11 HADs in a row and still be correct

(Also, Max makes a brief appearance in this video)

#english #grammar #language #CatsOfMastodon

All too often wrong: ‘Alot’ vs. A lot vs. Allot A lot of people really mess up these three words. In fact, I’m surprised that they’ve not used up the world’s allotment of allowable mistakes for this trio.A lot is not a word. It actually is two w…

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Commas Commas separate parts of a sentence or set off words or phrases from the rest of a sentence.  There are 4 main uses of commas in sentence construction. Using a comma in these 4 cases…

Second in revising my long-referenced #grammar guide - but easily most confused and confusing - #commas!

Sing it with me - comma, comma, comma, chameleoooon
kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/c...

#writing #amwriting #writingtip #revising #editing #publishing #professionalism!

Schadenfreude (German) - Pleasure from another's misfortune. #Germanlanguage #words #translation #grammar #grammardiva #grammarbooks

Back to reading Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" like you do on an early Thursday evening in the Down Under (and I probably broke all the elements with this post). #writing #grammar #punctuation #WriteSky

Quick fix: Long-term vs. longterm vs. long term Here’s a set of words that have been an ongoing problem among writers.Long-term with a hyphen, as in long-term disability, is the correct form.The confusion probably comes from the fact that a simi…

#grammar #writingtips #amwriting #writingcommunity #amediting inventingrealityediting.com/2...

How to write in Fourth Person POV:

"A set of wooden windchimes clunked like this sentence."

#writing #amwriting #writers #writer #grammar #editing #fourthperson #POV #writingtip #4th

Straight up to the bone real talk: If I ever have to program a door bell in a project, I’m calling it a ding dong on the backend. #dingdongonthebackend #ding #dong #backend #pro #grammar #jokes

#LangSky #English #Grammar #Teacher #Humor

🇬🇧 #Englisch

Simple Past = done and over: I lost my keys yesterday. Present Perfect = past meets now: I have lost my keys – still looking! Check signal words: yesterday/ago vs. just/already/ever. Ask: Does it matter now? Wenn ja → Present Perfect. #Englisch #Grammar #Lernen

Commas Commas separate parts of a sentence or set off words or phrases from the rest of a sentence.  There are 4 main uses of commas in sentence construction. Using a comma in these 4 cases…

Second in revising my long-referenced #grammar guide - but easily most confused and confusing - #commas!

Sing it with me - comma, comma, comma, chameleoooon
kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/c...

#writing #amwriting #writingtip #revising #editing #publishing #professionalism!

Elementary Grammar: A vs. AN 3 (A2)
youtu.be/G6UEBXinDlY
Here comes the third video for elementary students aimed at practising the difference between A and AN.
#englishinn #english #englishin3minutes #EnglishInn3Minutes #grammar #articles #indefinitearticles

Saudade (Portuguese) - Deep emotional longing for someone or something that's absent. #words #translation #portuguese #grammar #grammardiva #grammarbooks

Don’t be lightheaded: Toehead vs. towhead A lot of writers get tripped up on this word’s spelling. Let’s see if we can wind up the string that acts as a tripwire.When referring to a fair-haired, blond boy or blonde girl, towhead is correct…

#grammar #writingtips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Outwaaien (Dutch) - Walking in the wind to clear your mind. #Dutch #translation #words #grammar #language #grammardiva #grammarbooks

Mr. Mosoff, do stop asking #grok, and also improve your #grammar

Break a bad habit: Ingrained vs. engrained Among the many words we mishear (or perhaps hear “mispronounced”) are ingrain and ingrained. Because of this, many spell it engrain and engrained.Ingrain means to impress deeply while ingrained mea…

#grammar #writingtips #amwriting #writingcommunity #amediting inventingrealityediting.com/2...