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Principled Eclecticism

According to Michael Swan, when teaching grammar, we should reject nothing on doctrinaire grounds: * deductive teaching through explanations and examples, * inductive discovery activities, * rule-learning, * peer-teaching, * decontextualised practice, * communicative practice, * incidental focus on form during communicative tasks, * teacher correction and recasts, * grammar games, * corpus analysis, * […]

Posted on September 3, 2015 at 10:38 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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10 Grammar Rules Revisited – they are sometimes OK to break

There are several grammarians and linguists that are always exciting to read and listen to, and Steven Pinker is definitely one of them. His article in the Guardian revisits 10 most important grammar rules. It is surely worth reading http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/steven-pinker-10-grammar-rules-break Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style: the Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century is […]

Posted on August 17, 2014 at 10:52 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Writing & Punctuation – 10 Common Mistakes

http://divergenteye.blogspot.com/2014/02/grammar-check-infographic-10-common.html

Posted on April 7, 2014 at 11:54 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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GRAMMAR – the singular “they”

GRAMMAR – the singular “they” https://www.lexico.com/en/grammar/he-or-she-versus-they 

Posted on January 6, 2014 at 4:43 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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10 grammar rules you can really forget and 5 grammar points you should worry about more

SOURCE http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/30/10-grammar-rules-you-can-forget

Posted on October 3, 2013 at 10:32 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: GRAMMAR, Punctuation

TAG Questions

The basic tag questions are general English, shared by British and American: informational: ‘You don’t wear glasses, do you?’ (I’m not sure, but think you don’t. Am I right?) inclusive: ‘It’s a nice day, isn’t it?’(It obviously is – I’m not really asking, but just making polite remarks so you can join in the conversation). […]

Posted on November 30, 2012 at 10:24 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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