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• Verb production and word order in Russian agrammatic speakers *

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Background: Verb production has been shown to be impaired in individuals with agrammatic Broca’s aphasia. Several theories have linked this deficit to problems with the implementation of grammatical information that the verb contains. In particular, the number and type of arguments associated with a verb were ...
  4 days ago

• 2010 Winter Olympics-Bound U.S. Ski Team - Ad Agency Wipes-Out on Word Choice

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 123
  Just spotted this verb subcatagorization blunder in a magazine ad for the 2010 Winter Olympics-bound U.S. Ski Team. "Some gates bend, and some just lay down in fear." To refresh your memory, transitive verbs take objects, intransitive verbs dont. "Lay" is a transitive verb and there is not a direct object ...
  1 week ago

• An Introduction

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Why a blog on the English language for Psychology Today ? What do language and grammar have to do with psychology? Plenty, as I hope this blog will make clear. In my recent book The Lexicographer’s Dilemma , I try to explain what we mean when we talk about the “rules” of language. That word has a lot of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grammatically impaired: A new protected class?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 141
  It must be a severe grammatical impairment that accounts for the errors by a writer for Yahoo! Shine : Maybe the grammatically impaired make up a new protected class, and Yahoo! has a legal obligation to make “reasonable accommodations” for the handicap. In this case, I’d recommend a competent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pleading guilty to a grammatical felony

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 141
  The writer of this headline on the Yahoo! front page  should plead guilty to a subject-verb felony charge: Posted in Subject-Verb Agreement, Verbs Tagged: grammar, grammar errors, grammar mistakes, incorrect grammar, Subject-Verb Agreement, verb, Yahoo!, Yahoo! front page
  2 weeks ago

• School House Rock Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 129
  So what did you do this Veterans Day? Me, not what I planned. I have not gotten hardly anything done. So far today I walked down to see the parade, only for it to rain, and then to find out public school kids had school today. What is up with that? So no little kids actually got to see the parade, collect the ...
  2 weeks ago

• WINTER ACTION SNOW SONGS!

  
  Educationtipster: Kathy Stemke, Author/Educator — Authority: 122
  (To the tune of Are you Sleeping) Dance like snowflakes Dance like snowflakes In the air In the air Whirling, Twirling snowflakes Whirling, Twirling snowflakes Here and there Here and there Skate like athletes Skate like athletes Round the track Round the track Skating, skating, faster Skating, skating, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 48. Hurrah for The Lantern (Culture Shot)

  
  LearnItalianPod.com - Learn to Speak Italian with Podcasts — Authority: 104
  Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. When you think about a sea-bathing establishment right on the beach, you mentally picture men, women, and children all together enjoying their time outside. Not so if you enter the sea-bathing establishment “La Lanterna” in Trieste, Italy, where men and women cannot mingle ...
  2 weeks ago

• New photocopiable handouts November 2009 Part One

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 125
  It has come to my attention (that great school teach phrase which I swore never to use mysel) that whatever link I put top gets clicked on more than the others. Unless by some lucky chance everyone coming here wants to do a past tense review on Monday morning with adults but two weeks ago wanted to do some silly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Verb forms: seent, spunt, skinded

  
  Mr. Verb — Authority: 119
  Sometimes people start off with a linguistic peeve and piece together a better picture of things. That looks like what Betty Winston Bayé of the Lousiville Courier-Journal did in this article, called Speakers havent seent the harm of casual language (Its short … its better for you to read it than for me ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Guide to Online Gaming – Internet and Gaming Lingo and Jargon

  
  Gameolosophy — Authority: 423
  A Guide To Online Gaming Gaming Lingo  If you’ve just submerged yourself in the world of online gaming it can seem as though everyone is speaking a whole different language. English is the main language spoken online, however there are hundreds of words that gamers use that will just make no sense what so ever ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Guide to Online Gaming – Internet and Gaming Lingo and Jargon

  
  Gameolosophy — Authority: 423
  A Guide To Online Gaming Gaming Lingo  If you’ve just submerged yourself in the world of online gaming it can seem as though everyone is speaking a whole different language. English is the main language spoken online, however there are hundreds of words that gamers use that will just make no sense what so ever ...
  3 weeks ago

• Transvestites, Transgenders and Transitive Verbs

  
  Prefers Her Fantasy Life — Authority: 100
  As I mentioned Im teaching at a two-year college that offers an associates degree in Medical Administrative Assistance. We have a strict dress code where students are required to wear scrubs and white sports shoes. Their hair must be a "natural" color--no bright reds or blues--and they must cover all facial ...
  3 weeks ago

• Intuition & VerBS

  
  [fresherthan.com] — Authority: 133
  Check out this video of Los Angeles hip-hop artists Intuition & VerBS hitting the stage. Big shout out to the homie Intuition rocking the Acrylick x FT shirt !
  3 weeks ago

• Martha It Up

  
  Hollygab — Authority: 411
  Maybe you’ve already seen these photos floating around the internets. I just found them recently.  I knew Martha Stewart had been a model, but who knew Martha Stewart was this cool? Not me! I remembered seeing these photos after I had talked to my mom this morning. She’s a dedicated Martha Stewart fan. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Were a writer and editor involved?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 141
  Were a writer and editor involved in constructing this question on Yahoo! Music ? Is either aware that the word either is a singular? Posted in Subject-Verb Agreement, Verbs Tagged: bad grammar, grammar, grammar errors, grammar mistakes, incorrect grammar, Subject-Verb Agreement, verb, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Music
  4 weeks ago

• College Study Tips – 8 Tips to Ease Your Reading

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 158
  Sometimes ordinary reading methods may not help you to remember the chapter content well. You feel the reading is tough and get bogged down in this murky reading assignment. You can try the following reading techniques which help to ease the reading and help you to remember what you have read better. Tip 1: Read it ...
  4 weeks ago

• write (to) someone

  
  separated by a common language — Authority: 403
  Frequent contributor Marc wrote to say that he: received this comment about a draft letter I prepared: "Can you please put in I AM WRITING TO YOU NOT I AM WRITING YOU..this is amercian and bad english." Comment is from an England-born Australian. I am willing to admit that this may be American English (and the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Someone needs a good hazing

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 141
  Not that I’m advocating violence, but the writer of this caption Yahoo! TV  deserves a rap on the knuckles with a big red pen: Posted in Subject-Verb Agreement, Verbs Tagged: bad grammar, grammar, grammar errors, grammar mistakes, incorrect grammar, Subject-Verb Agreement, verb, Yahoo!, Yahoo! TV
  4 weeks ago

• Why Learning the Spanish Language is Growing in Popularity

  
  The Ultimate Foreign Language Resource — Authority: 129
  Popular culture is currently dictating that learning Spanish is the correct and wisest choice if you are choosing a second language to learn. The increasing number of Europeans and Americans that are now learning Spanish gives evidence to the fact that being able to speak Spanish is not only required for easier ...
  5 weeks ago

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