As noted in section 1, prescriptive grammarians condemned the use of zero adverbs in the eighteenth century.From theCambridge English Corpus
While today's language critics fault it, our 20th-century grammarians seem happy with the passive as a fact of life.From theCambridge English Corpus
The activation of those modules depends on the nature of the input and on the linguistic strategy selected by thegrammarian.From theCambridge English Corpus
Finally, he claims that the nuns have been motivated in their precocity to consult historians and grammarians so as to facilitate their understanding of scripture.From theCambridge English Corpus
Even the grammarians of the time by and large ignored the apostrophe as part of possessive constructions.From theCambridge English Corpus
These can be useful to grammarians, in allowing exceptional, disprefer red or peripheral cases to be alluded to without specific commitment.From theCambridge English Corpus
He does cite 16th-century grammarians, however, who even then treat orthographic geminate vowels in many forms as bisyllabic.From theCambridge English Corpus
Many things in real life, which often confounds the dictates of grammarians, can show how this is so.From theCambridge English Corpus
What is more, it is this use of hopefully that is stigmatized by traditional grammarians, and it has been resisted all along.From theCambridge English Corpus
Several grammarians have concluded that the main reason is educational.From theCambridge English Corpus
Lexicographers and grammarians, linguists and philologists express different concerns in different periods.From theCambridge English Corpus
All speakers of the language, including grammarians, have their linguistic prejudices.From theCambridge English Corpus
Reciprocals in subject position are still considered incorrect by prescriptive grammarians.From theCambridge English Corpus
Although the dictionaries have been slow to pick up on it, grammarians are now the bad guys of language.From theCambridge English Corpus
It took linguist a bit longer to replacegrammarian.From theCambridge English Corpus
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