usage of English,and issues involved in the Grammar war
This essay represents an argumentative on the usage of English, examining all the issues involved in the Grammar war. Some of the mention contentious issues raised include the etymologies and the standard rules, prescriptive and descriptive issues, controversial issues, and the relation that affect the modern citizens. The essay focuses on some on etymologies such as conclusion and concl and silly and seely. Controversial rules such as the ones governing “hanged and hung” and the Oxford Comma.
Double negative – It might be grammatically right that arguments concerning the acceptability of double negative to be retained from a different period. Real conversation or talks generally originate from linguist deliberated acceptance of the habitually African American vernacular English. In grammar, the tweak is common. Unsurprisingly, these arguments inherently arrive lumbered with somewhat unfortunate outcomes. A great example of an African American vernacular English in a sentence is He stay working instead of He keeps on working
Like conjunction – Winston Cigarettes inadvertently ignited a nasty linguistic furore back in 1954 with its practice of like as a conjunction. Slogan “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” was once considered so egregious, many broadcasters (Walter Cronkite) rebuffed even to recite it on air. More outrage followed when wordlists recognized that the firm was not constrained to any grammatical error, also advertising it as a sample of correct conjunction usage. Serve it to say; this isn’t precisely much of an argument these days