Real Grammar

'In considering the use of grammar as a corrective of what are called 'ungrammatical' expressions, it must be borne in mind that the rules of grammar have no value except as statements of facts: whatever is in general use in a language is for that very reason grammatically correct. (Henry Sweet, 1891)

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    Abide With Me

    Absent Article

    Abide With Me

    All Well and Good

    And Up Yours

    A New Look at Verb Forms

    Another Resource

    Apostrophe's

    Between You, I and the Gatepost

    David Crystal Having a Row with John Humphrys

    David Crystal - Texts and Tweets: Myths and Realities

    Descriptive and Prescriptive Approaches to Language

    Deutsch, Schwyzerdüütsch and English

    English is in Decline, Yada, Yada, Yada

    Forms of Formulas

    Functional Grammar

    Getting Tense

    Here We Go Again

    Homo Loquens

    'Iigh Haspirations

    I Is Alright, Jack

    Is That Clear?

    Language Log: The Passive in English

    Lashing the Lashers

    Lashing the Wind

    Latin Linguistics

    L'Exception suisse

    Linguistic Sanity

    Michael Halliday

    More on Articles

    Needs Change, Words Change

    Nothing New About Non-Standard Dialects

    One Language, Many Voices

    Outing

    Prefix 'Pre-'

    R L Trask

    Some Misunderstandings and an Attempt at Enlightenment

    Stand and Deliver

    Steven Pinker on Language and Thought

    Subject To The Following

    Subjunctive

    The Great Comma Debate

    Their They Go Again

    Three Expressions and a Conclusion

    Through the Language Glass

    Two New Sites

    Your Actual Grammar

     

     

     

     

     

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