To my English speakers who refer to a corporation in the plural (“Company A are…”), aside from convention, what sense or rationale comes to mind when you consider this? I just talked with my girlfriend about regional (continental?) differences in English word use and this one came up.

For the U.S. since corporations are considered a person for some legal purposes, the singular usage (“Company B is…”) makes sense in this case.

I still think "aren't I" is a stupid expression.

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TIL that "went" is the past tense of "wend".

Is this sentence grammatical?

Saying "better planned" would be fine, so why not this?

But "nicer" isn't describing a noun here, so it should be an adverb.

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Why does “reached” sound wrong? Like it shouldn’t be the past tense of “reach”?
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"Jovin sees concluding preposition opponents as operatives of a sort of sunk cost fallacy. People have invested a lot of time in finding ways to not end clauses and sentences with prepositions. So, when someone comes along and tells you there's no such rule, it's human nature to cling tighter to something that cost so much time and energy."

Me, I've known that it's okay to end a sentence with a preposition ever since I became a fan of Bill Bryson.

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www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1233663125/grammar-preposition-sentence-rule-myth-merriam-webster-dictionary

I came to Canada with my family when I was 11 year old, and this idiosyncrasy of the English language might be the hardest thing to wrap my head around...

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I'd love to know if there's any #linguistics research about the colloquially expanded usage of 'where'

so it floats free of its material, locative meaning and starts to mean 'regarding which' or even 'when'

so rather than a physical space, it denotes a conceptual space, i.e. a situation or scenario

as seen in the 'Friends' episode naming format "The One Where…"

it is impossible to google this, but basically in everyday speech I'm noticing people using 'where' as a catchall adverb

I do it too, e.g. "I had a good day where I managed to get my work done"

As an editor I still strongly feel that you express yourself more clearly and precisely if you allow words to have distinct meanings, or at least distinct contextual appropriateness…

"I had a good day when I managed to get my work done"

but this has a more refined meaning focusing on time:

"the day _on which_ I got work done was a good day"

rather than the productivity itself:

"getting my work done that day was a good situation"

I'm wondering if I need to be less prescriptivist about 'where' and recognise the semantic nuances of its descriptive usage

I don't want to pedantically force all usages of 'where' into spatial/locative senses and so crush its range of figurative senses

god, why can't I just edit stuff rather than breaking my brain obsessing over language like this

At times like these I feel neurodivergent in a disability sense, like other people's brains can just intuitively propel them through their work while I feel dragged down by my compulsion to understand the history, rationale and mechanisms of every tiny aspect of my work before I can even begin it

I know this is petty, but has anyone else noticed that no one, and I mean nobody including well educated professionals, on-air personalities, even teachers appears to know how to use “I” and “me” anymore? “Me” appears to be going away for good, as everybody now substitutes “I” in instances, both written and spoken, when “me” should be used. Don’t come at me, I’m a wordsmith, a story teller, and these small details are part of my DNA. #EnglishGrammar #GrammarNerds

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So, I've been making videos for my students.
I'm always a bit self-conscious about posting them on social media, but I figured that they could be of interest for my non-native English-speaking followers. Tell me what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTpxgCZJ5CA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4X8Opp2fmk

When the pandemic started, I used a few online tools that have been part of my life for years but that I rarely included in class before. One that worked particularly well was short Youtube videos. I thought that I could continue doing such videos.
I started the experiment during summer vacation, maybe it's time to continue with it.
I'm still a bit self-conscious about putting this out there, but it may be useful to some people.
Enjoy.

https://www.davidbilla.net/how-to-properly-use-because-in-a-sentence/

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From the English Grammar account
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