grammar

10 min read 2022-08-10 14:44:55

How to use まい ( = mai)

「みんなには言うまいと思ったけどマギー先生ってねえ..」 =

4 min read 2022-08-09 05:13:22

If you write, then for sure you have heard of Grammarly. It is without a doubt one of the best text editing tools available to consumers, and has

2 min read 2022-08-08 19:10:04

Q: As a mathematician, I’m bothered by the inefficiency of transliterating the Greek letter ϕ as “ph.” Since it’s one letter in Greek, and

3 min read 2022-08-04 20:40:14

One of my favorite go-to news sources is the BBC Daily News. Reading an account of a shooting in Norway not long ago, I came to this sentence: King

3 min read 2022-08-04 07:00:00

You’ve started learning Turkish? Süper! So you’ve probably already learned a few phrases for “hello” and “goodbye,” as well as the most

5 min read 2022-08-03 18:00:43

This post was written by NCTE member Deborah Dean. My junior English class was about halfway through our reading of Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann

3 min read 2022-08-03 16:44:05

The verb get is unusual in that it has two different past participles; gotten and got. You might think that the preference for either one is simply

3 min read 2022-08-01 19:10:03

Q: If I ask a question like “Have you got a screwdriver?” and someone answers, “I do,” it sets my teeth on edge. I extrapolate that to mean

3 min read 2022-07-25 19:10:59

Q: Living a life in theatre, I cast actors, though I don’t throw them out the window. “Cast” is one of those verbs with the same form in the

2 min read 2022-07-20 20:39:43

In a recent post about confusion between the words precedent and precedence, a reader commented on a similar confusion between noun-adjective

4 min read 2022-07-18 19:10:12

Q: Can you write about the expression “weak in the knees”? I know it has to do metaphorically with fear or apprehension, but as someone who

3 min read 2022-07-18 16:00:00

Each of us has likely experienced culture shock at least once in our lives. Foreign customs and different mentalities might surprise us at best, or

15 min read 2022-07-17 08:42:03

Getting into a good routine can be a challenge at the beginning of the school year, but I’ve got something for you to help make your morning

3 min read 2022-07-14 21:07:07

The choice to use people or persons in writing depends on the context. In most cases, people is the accepted plural form of person. But there are

3 min read 2022-07-11 19:10:25

Q: The verb “stick” seems to have uses that don’t allow conjugation. You can say, “We got stuck in the elevator,” but not “The elevator