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Are Exclamation Points Flirty? I ask Chat.OpenAI

21 Dec 2022 by Steve Ayers
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Chat OpenAI tries to write about Exclamation Marks

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Categories For Writers, Home Tags AI writing, grammar history, OpenAI, semicolon 3 Comments

Who Makes Grammar Rules?

15 Dec 202215 Dec 2022 by Steve Ayers
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Reading Time: 3 minutes We the people make the grammar rules, and prescriptive grammarians work to record those rules.

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Categories Grammar Tags grammar, grammar history 1 Comment

5 Ways to Trigger A Grammar Nazi

10 Feb 202313 Oct 2022 by Steve Ayers
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Triggering a Grammar Nazi is easy if you know the outdated rules they won’t let go.

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Categories Grammar Tags grammar, grammar history, writing 1 Comment

What is Grammar?

1 Nov 202230 Dec 2021 by Steve Ayers

Reading Time: 3 minutes Although grammar does have rules, these rules help us communicate effectively. Grammar is the structure of a language, and the rules are the visible and obvious elements of that structure.

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Categories Grammar Tags grammar fun, grammar history, grammar words Leave a comment

How Have Semicolon Rules Changed?

20 Jun 20229 May 2021 by Steve Ayers

Reading Time: 3 minutes Semicolon rules have changed. But the changes happened a century ago, so the rules you learn now should last you awhile.

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Why Is English Spelling So Complicated?

24 Sep 20221 May 2021 by Steve Ayers

Reading Time: 3 minutes The English language has always “borrowed” words from other languages.

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Categories For Writers, Grammar Tags grammar history, spelling 2 Comments
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