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Grammar Ninja is an educational game where the player identifies parts of speech in rapid succession Correct answers help you advance wrong ones blow up in your face The game is modeled after Brain Age s CalculationsX20 exercise Grammar Ninja is my final project for my Independent Study in Game...

Any used as a pronoun is followed by a singular or plural verb depending on the intended meaning Any of these suggestions is acceptable i e any one of the suggestions is acceptable Are any of the children i e more than one of several children coming Is any of the children coming implies that one...

J Lewis wrote As Marius says be consistent You can t begin by talking about the police in the singular and then continue with they We consider police as plural because we are thinking of a certain number of police officers and not the entire institution It s rare to see police in the singular...

I ve come across the term adjective appositive and adverb appositive a few times and I m just wondering if this is widely used Is it an incorrect description of a construction that should be called something else I m asking this because I always see appositives defined as nouns or noun phrases...

You ve made some very respectable guesses I m convinced that there are no right answers to this question by the way The It s or It is or It was and the who are invariable in all versions of this formula The controversy revolves around two other factors Should the pronoun before who be in the...

I found this about quasi coordinators as well as rather than in addition to etc Semantically as well as and rather than equal and Nevertheless the quasi coordinators impose the selection of the farther part from the main verb as the head of the coordinated subject thus making only the farther...

I have trouble figuring out why grammar experts get the blame for these There are a number of reasons why people might disagree over these usages colloquial vs written American vs British PC vs non PC prescriptivism vs descriptivism and even one or two examples where there are definite grey areas...

Anonymous wrote Oops Didn t take time to log in MM Well I am now deep in the bowels of Quirk et al Jussive and I think there may be some ahem lack of clarity among everyone including the texts between group nouns and collective nouns among other things Group nouns according to the book in my lap...

Oops Didn t take time to log in MM Well I am now deep in the bowels of Quirk et al Jussive and I think there may be some ahem lack of clarity among everyone including the texts between group nouns and collective nouns among other things Group nouns according to the book in my lap at the moment...

In modern English who works as both a subject and an object http pinker wjh harvard edu articles media 1994_01_24_thenewrepublic html The first story was a nonpartisan analysis of supposed pronoun case errors made by the two candidates in the 1992 US presidential election George Bush had recently...