English Grammar

Lo and behold, both “wrong sent” and “wrong send” constitute usual, never-been-thought-of ungrammatical bywords of folks both online and in person. Using our linguistic microscope, let’s zero in on this commonplace grammatical slip and dig into what this expression should be in accord with the rules of English grammar.

In our day-to-day language, modifiers are sometimes misused in expressions, which results in illogical sentence construction and, accordingly, question marks atop listeners’ heads. Using our linguistic microscope, let’s take a look at the nature of this common error, a slip in language use known in grammar studies as dangling modifiers.

Richard Trench, in his book 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴, noted that grammar constitutes the well-grounded composition--the logic

When Mary phones her friend John using a new number, John naturally asks, “Who’s this?” To this Mary instinctively responds, “It’s me,...

Pronouns are a part of speech that takes the place of nouns to avoid redundancy in sentences. The word "pronoun" came from the Latin word...