This gallery contains 1 photo.
Last week I was reminded of the usefulness of Boolean operators by Ewoud Sanders’ booklet on eResearch which is available (in Dutch) here. Because it is often possible to find enough relevant information using simple search queries, I sometimes forget the … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
The previous post quoted an example from Lindley Murray’s English Grammar to illustrate that restrictive relative clauses are not separated from the antecedent by a comma: A man who is of a detractory spirit, will misconstrue … (1795:164). Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw, a specialist … Continue reading
This gallery contains 2 photos.
Elsewhere in this blog (search for: “A which hunt”), I referred to the different prescriptions for usage of which and that in British and American English. The American advice to “use that before a restrictive clause and which before everything else” suggests that that is … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Working with WordSmith Tools As the first in a regular lecture series we will be organising, the project Bridging the Unbridgeable offers a demonstration of the concordancing program WordSmith Tools, designed by Mike Scott from theUniversity of Liverpool. This program … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
In a recent blog, the question was raised when objections against sentences starting with a conjunction were first formulated, and one of the commenters, Steven Leefers, suggested it must have been around the Interbellum. So thanks to Steven for sorting … Continue reading
Bridging the Unbridgeable 