This sentence contains multiple center embeddings ... of the wonderful and wild things you can do within the bounds of proper English, it’s the perfect response to pull out the next time ...

There is no possible way this sentence is correct. I mean, it’s literally the same word, repeated eight times. This is where the loopholes and tricky trickeries of the English language come into ...

It’s a perpetual lament: The purity of the English language is under assault. These days we are told that our ever-texting teenagers can’t express themselves in grammatical sentences.

learning to use correct English." An Education 'Phenomenon' Burns Florey and other experts trace the origin of diagramming sentences back to 1877 and two professors at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

I conjugated verbs correctly and diagrammed sentences perfectly and with great ... with exclusionary beliefs in absolutes, and correct English was a central tenet. I left for the “inner city ...