Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ebonics operates as a divisive agent, as Ms. Barenbaum suspects, it will be reinforcing a division which already exists, not creating one. Perhaps the most ridiculous contention in the article is that our nation's print media automatically creates a binary opposition (Ebonics/standard English) by using standard English grammar when writing stories about Ebonics. By this logic, anytime a newspaper or magazine discusses Japan, it should be in Japanese, else there would be an English/Japanese binary. To use a more extreme example, anytime there is a story about blind people it should be written in braille, to avoid the braille/English...
...life, he realizes the importance of the three-day weekend. The three-day weekend means his parents can spend an extra day with him. The three-day weekend means he can stay up late an extra night. And the three-day weekend means he can delay his addition and grammar yet another...
...smashing Broadway revival. Ann Reinking, who stars as 1920s murderer Roxie Hart, choreographed the show in Fosse's slithery style, which is a glorious reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. And Bebe Neuwirth, a tarty treat as Roxie's jailhouse rival, proves she has mastered the grammar...
...Because Peace Games has moved to a more student-centered program, we ask volunteers to become more a part of the school," said Meredith Moss Quinn '99, a Winthrop House resident who serves as site coordinator for the Mission Grammar School in Mission Hill...
...Like any language, it has rules of grammar and rules of how you create legal sentences," he says. "This language is very precise...