Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude
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It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we’re writing. When is it right to say “the dog and me” and when should it be “the dog and I”? Does it even matter? Andreea S. Calude dives into the age-old argument between linguistic prescriptivists and descriptivists — who have two very different opinions on the matter.
Spoken and written language use different patterns for organizing words. Do you think that (monolingual) speakers and writers operate with two completely different grammars, or would you say that they have one single grammar system which contains different word patterns whose frequencies differ in spoken and written forms of that language? Why?
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- Educator Andreea S. Calude
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Animator Mike Schell
- Narrator Addison Anderson
