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Topic: Grammar

Related:
  English grammar    Grammar Rules  
  Check your grammar    Grammar Help  
  Guide to Grammar    Grammar Lesson  
  Grammar Checker    Grammar Exercises  
  Spanish grammar    French grammar  
  Teaching Grammar    Grammar Test  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Helen Keller
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary
Personality:Analytical
Dream job(s):Teacher
Education:None,  Elementary school
Favorite TV show(s):Charmed
Favorite board game(s):Scrabble
Favorite activity(s):Writing stories,  Taking IQ tests
Favorite book(s):"American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster
"The McGuffey Readers" by William Holmes McGuffey
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Interest(s):Latin,  English,  French
Worst habit(s):Swearing
Favorite quote(s):"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Binary parser grammars are intended to enable non-programmers to access fields of their registers, without requiring the ICE-developer to write explicit code to do so.
Directory GRAMMARS will hold all echo scanner definition files, parser definition files and evaluator echo definition files which are supplied as examples.
Regular grammars are rather restrictive - local features of programming languages like the definitions of integer numbers and identifiers can be described by them, but not much more.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Dictionaries, grammars, Bibles, descriptive works and books of travel and exploration are heavily represented as are books on Arabic and Persian studies.
Grammar skills are reinforced and new grammatical concepts are introduced while vocabulary is systematically developed.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Sharing of grammars adds to the sharing of the cultural content mentioned above in facilitating communication.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Grammar and punctuation If you do not have the luxury of a computer with a spelling and grammar check, try to be brave and let a friend or colleague read through your work.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Carey also wrote grammars and dictionaries for six major Indian languages, translated many Sanskrit classics into English, and functioned as government censor for literary productions.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Adequate grammars need not enable us to determine individual words; why need a science of behavior enable us to determine individual acts?
Grammars and lexicons are very good at formulating principles, but in practice usages and meanings can often be looser and have special applications.
The first thing is that you can use grammars to map from the genotype to the phenotype.
Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver

Other grammars by the author include An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic , Levantine vernacular Arabic and Syriac.
 
 
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Comments from our users:
From:
Angela
2005-05-19 23:45:54
I'm wondering 'who' can be used in this sentence instead of 'that'. He is not the man that he used to be
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