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7 unusual facts about English grammar


Beneath Your Beautiful

The title of the song attracted attention from fans, some of whom questioned Labrinth about the spelling of the word "Your" within the song's title, believing that was a grammatical error and should have been spelt "You're".

Betty Azar

Betty Azar is a teacher and the author of several English grammar workbooks that are a staple in the English as a second language teaching industry.

Dennis Baron

In his Guide to Home Language Repair Baron answers the questions that he is most frequently asked about English grammar.

English grammar

The English modal verbs consist of the core modals can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, as well as ought (to), had better, and in some uses dare and need.

John O'London's Weekly

The magazine regularly featured a literate section on English grammar and word usage, and would recommend carefully selected good books.

Kate Burridge

Burridge's work has mainly focused on Pennsylvania German-speaking communities in Canada, grammatical change in Germanic languages, the nature of euphemism and dysphemism, linguistic taboo, and on English grammatical structure in general.

Yang Ti-liang

After retiring from Executive Council, he spent much of his time teaching English grammar and etiquette.


Conditional mood

English does not have an inflective (morphological) conditional mood, except in as much as the modal verbs could, might, should and would may in some contexts be regarded as conditional forms of can, may, shall and will respectively.


see also

Ahmed Mohamed Iman

His books included Toosiye Everyday English for Everyone (an English Grammar translated into Somali), Marine Ecosystem Data Gathered of Somalia and Taariikhda Taxan iyo Dhaqanka Soomaaliya (a book about the history and culture of Somalia).

Debi Sue Voorhees

After her acting career, Voorhees worked as a literature, English, grammar, and journalism teacher in two high schools in Texas and New Mexico.

Gladys in Grammarland

She is taken, through a cardboard door with "English Grammar" written on it, into Grammarland, where she meets with a great many Verbs, who explain the concepts of transitivity and intransitivity to her.

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

She has recently published a noted book on Bishop Lowth (1710–1787) (the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar).

Longman

In 1799 Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray's English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50,000 copies.