English grammars

Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) modeling with neural networks has become the de facto standard for sequence prediction tasks such as those found in language modeling and machine translation. The basic idea is to use an encoder to…

A few days ago, a Filipino cultural foundation that I really respect took to their Twitter account to post one of the photos from their very valuable collection. The photo showed a…

A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages ​​spoken before the written period, using computer modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year old Proto-Indo-European…

You wouldn't think of the London Grammar as an obvious headliner at a festival. The electronic trio, whose third album Californian Soil climbed straight to the top of the UK charts when it was released in April this year, are known for…

Search for English grammar checker apps and you'll find over a dozen of them. It just seems like an easier solution than learning the basics of grammar. But this is where the illusion…

WITH GRAMMAR APPROACHING the status of anachronism, Bryan A. Garner's Taming the language is not a screed for the return of grammar, but rather a cheerful review of 100 items from Garner's personal collection of nearly 2,000 grammars…

12 / 20Nicole Fornabaio / rd.comAbbreviations with seemingly random lettersThe English language is full of abbreviations that just don't make sense. Why does the abbreviation for "number" have an "O", for example? And where did the…

The University of Latvia (LU) recently published a monograph on Latvian grammar in English - "Latvian Grammar", written by linguists Andra Kalnača and Ilze…

It might be a little late, thanks to Covid, but a long-planned centenary reunion for staff and students at Nunthorpe Grammar School is expected to take place later this month. A dinner was held at Merchant…

THE CAXTON CICERO - Marcus Tullius CICERO (106-43 BC)By senectute, in English: Of old age. Translated by Stephen Scrope (c.1399-1472) and edited by William Worcester (1415-1482). - By amicitia, in English: friendship. Translated by John…

Extract of Wanderers, kings, merchants: the history of India through its languages, released by Penguin Viking in April 2021. Everywhere we turn for answers on the non-Sanskrit characteristics of Indo-Aryan languages, we find ourselves in…

High schools have been told they may need to make changes to 11+ exams and up next year "in light of the fact that most children have been out of school for a significant period in 2020 and at the beginning of 2021 ”.…

School leaders and education experts have warned that the GCSE and A-level results this summer will see grade inflation levels similar to last year despite onerous measures imposed on teachers to try to make the system…

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. Have a question you would like an expert to answer? Send it to…

Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, which makes it easier to acquire new languages ​​after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly Herculean…

No matter what type of work you do, good grammar is relevant to all organizations and can make a big difference in your career path.As Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, an online repair manual company, wrote in a Harvard Business Review article,…

Google Translate has become the go-to Internet resource for short and fast translations from foreign languages.The service was first launched in April 2006, against early competition from Babel Fish. It now has more than 500 million users…

How were the little words - such as I, you, an, and - created?Felicity Miles, St AlbansPost new questions below or send them to [email protected] respondIn the same way that big words were created. Only faster. dylan37What you…

First of all, you need to know who Bryan Garner is. He is arguably the largest living lexicographer of the English language in the world. I'm not sure the “probably” hedge is needed. Most people who…

ohAn unintended consequence of school closures and distance learning has been the emphasis on teaching grammar. While supporting their children in home learning, many parents faced their own lack of knowledge of the basics. What exactly…

Through John McWhorter, Ph.D., Colombia University From 1066 AD, the French-speakers occupied England. It was the Normans in particular and the dialect they spoke was a different dialect from French. The Normans were, in fact, also…

AUSTIN, Texas — Creole languages ​​don't retain all the grammatical features of their original languages, as some have claimed, nor are creoles the simplest grammars in the world, according to a new analysis Posted in Nature…

In her first book How You Say It, UChicago psychologist Katherine D. Kinzler explores how we interpret language to divide the world into social groups. In a new book, Professor Katherine D. Kinzler argues that the way you speak reflects…

Imagine training a computer with solid vocabulary and basic knowledge of parts of speech. How would he understand this sentence: "The chef who ran to the store had no more food." Did the chef run out of food? Does the store? Was the…

Jummer holidays are approaching and no one knows what the new school year has in store for us. While normalcy no longer exists, one thing seems certain: at a time when one in two children in the country have had no tests or exams, the…

Language learning after home language in early childhood is often referred to as second language learning (despite the fact that people may actually learn their third or fourth language). In Canada, an officially bilingual country,…

Learning a language after the mother tongue in infancy is often referred to as learning a second language (despite the fact that people can actually learn their third or fourth language). In Canada, an officially bilingual country,…

Shana Poplack, Emeritus University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, University of Ottawa/L'Université d'Ottawa African-American vernacular English is an…

After students at a California high school were recently asked to 'translate' Black English sentences into Standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: 'The last thing they need - our children - is to be forced…

gRAMMAR HAS seldom produced so much public acrimony as in the worldwide battle over pronouns. In a 2015 skirmish, the University of Tennessee offered guidance on referencing non-binary students on its website, only for the political…

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang addressed a crowd of hundreds at a rally on Cambridge Common on Monday night, where he discussed his Universal Basic Income proposal.The rally came just four days after Yang appeared in the…

Although grammar schools have been phased out in many parts of England, they still exist in some areas and are popular with relocating parents looking for a quality education for their children.The following article is from To relocate…

Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa can tell the weather and crack a good joke, but any 8-year-old can have a better conversation. The deep learning patterns that power Siri and Alexa learn to understand our…

One might well assume that Noah Webster (1758-1843), America's most famous lexicographer, was a cloistered pedant or silent scholar who pored over books and manuscripts. In fact, he became, over his long life, a quarrelsome, legalistic,…

Join today's top leaders online at the Data Summit on March 9. Register here. What is the difference between independent and dependent clauses? Is it "me" or is it "I"? And how does “affect” really differ from “effect”?…

Martha Brockenbrough, founder of the Society for Promoting Good Grammar, started National Grammar Day in 2008. Since then, it's been held annually on March 4, a date that also happens to be a full sentence (March forward!). It is…

All Illustrations: Aïda Amer; Portrait: Folger Shakespeare Library/Cropped/CC BY-SA 4.0 There are thousands of people the rules for correct grammatical use of a given language; most of the time these are created and then taught, to…

Bad handwriting can make others think you're not smart.I'm a magazine editor and I know firsthand how grammar can change the meaning of a sentence.Don't get caught up in miscommunication. Master these…

The emphasis on formal written grammar in schools masks the fact that English has many types of grammar – and they are all equally valid, writes Andreea Calude, senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of Waikato. "But don't you…

My grammar checker and I are on break. Due to irreconcilable differences, we are no longer on good terms. It all started when he started putting commas before each "who". Despite all the angry underlining, "it's a habit that seems…

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It is a particular observation that the more people speak a language, the simpler its grammar tends to be. English and Mandarin, for example, have particularly simple structures. On the other hand, the languages ​​spoken in a single…

Languages ​​have an intriguing paradox. Languages ​​with many speakers, such as English and Mandarin, have an extensive vocabulary with relatively simple grammar. Yet the reverse is also true: languages ​​with fewer speakers have…

Scientists have found that people who are constantly bothered by grammatical errors online have "less pleasant" personalities than those who just let them slide.What about those friends who are hypersensitive to typos on your Facebook…

Do you want to speak more languages? Sure, as Sally Struthers said so often, we all do. But the requirements for mastering any foreign language, unlike probably the correspondence courses offered by this All in the family star turned…

The “myth” of the history of languages: languages ​​do not share the same history, but different components evolve according to different trajectories and at different rates. A large-scale study of Pacific languages ​​reveals that the…

When someone uses grammar incorrectly, are you making an assumption about their intelligence or education? Like it or not, words, spelling and punctuation are powerful and can leave a lasting impression on others. But even the most…

Most people are familiar with sign language, the system used by deaf people to communicate. What fewer may know is that there is many variations of sign language around the world. So how does sign language grammar work? Unlike spoken…

The history of English grammar is shrouded in mystery. It is generally thought to have begun at the end of the 16th century, with the work of William Bullokar. grammar brochure (1586) - but where does Bullokar's inspiration come…

The anthropologist Edward Sapir once wrote: “Unfortunately, or fortunately, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak. Sapir was talking about the irregularities of language. For me, this leakage is particularly…

Parents and teachers in England are angry at a spelling, punctuation and grammar test that schoolchildren must sit at the end of primary school. First introduced in 2013, all 11-year-old pupils in schools run by local authorities will…

English grammar has been closely linked to that of Latin since the 16and century when English began to be taught in schools. Since grammar education before this was Latin-focused, it is not surprising that teachers based their…

In order to hypothesize the evolutionary origins of grammar, it is essential to rely on a theory or a model of human grammars. Interestingly, scholars engaged in the theoretical study of grammar (syntacticians), especially those…

Photo courtesy of flickr.com It's a common expression: difficult dilemma. But that's also wrong — at least in the grammatical sense since a dilemma is, by definition, difficult. This is what we call a redundant phrase, and they are…

Is there correct English? Simon Hefer: There is decent English. It is the standard form of communication used when an English speaker or writer wants to make sure they are not misunderstood by another. It is English from which…

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