Chaser knows proper nouns%2C verbs%2C adverbs and prepositions learned through repetition Chaser understands that words play off one another John Pilley%2C retired professor and Chaser%27s owner%2C ...

Chaser is a female border collie. And she can understand English grammar. She can understand the relationships between a prepositional object, verb, and direct object in a four word sentence, like "to ...

"E-MAIL" or "e-mail"? "Bed and breakfast" or "bed-and-breakfast"? "Mandarin Chinese", or just "Mandarin"? "Smart phone" or "smartphone"? "Mic" or "mike"? My question isn't which of these readers ...

Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra I’m going to put it out there - most teachers don’t know enough about how the English language works [aka grammar], and this ...

When Lynne Truss wrote, in her best-selling 2003 grammar screed Eats, Shoots & Leaves, of “a world of plummeting punctuation standards,” she was (perhaps unwittingly) joining an ancient tradition. How ...

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