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Terence Parsons, Some Problems concerning the Logic of Grammatical Modifiers, Synthese, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, Semantics of Natural Language, I (Oct., 1970), pp. 320-334 ...
I saw you working hard. I appreciate you working hard. At a glance, these sentences seem grammatically identical. But in fact, the grammar of the second one is wildly ...
Poor writing can make others think you aren't intelligent. I'm the executive editor of a magazine and know firsthand how grammar can change the meaning of a sentence. Don't get caught up in ...
A few weeks ago, I mentioned here a CNN article “about the president making an unannounced stop.” Two readers emailed with the same question. Here’s Bill in Niskayuna, N.Y.: “I was taught that a noun ...
Broad match modifiers help advertisers control the intent of users seeing ads, but Bing says advertisers may have been missing out because of grammatical errors in queries.