Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More than one-third of the students who want to become journalism majors in their junior year at the University of Wisconsin did not meet minimum admissions standards in grammar, spelling, punctuation and word usage. At the University of North Carolina's journalism school, 39% of the students flunked the basic spelling test...
...expressive regardless of whether it's music or not music. I don't speak good English, but I know I am expressive. That's all, I get the idea across, because the idea is there. It's very much there and it gets across in spite of all the grammar you can talk...
...intuition is that sentences like Max is easy to please and Max is eager to please are basically the same construction, differing only in meaning--and that's the way two hundred years of English grammars described them. In fact, the structures of those sentences are very different, and one way to describe that difference is in terms of a notion of deep structure. It bothers Percy that the transformational grammar is not somehow built into our nerves and synapses, actually generating sentences while we talk, but that is the paradox: The model reflects a knowledge we do have about...
...your account of Ophuls' problems with The Memory of Justice [May 12], you say, "... the lineup would have to depend ... on whom would be available," which raises the question of whom is in charge of TIME's grammar department and whom is going to fire...
...White House tapes spun in relentless revelation, they emitted a verbal cacophony offending those stalwart upholders of the exigenicies of the nations's grammar and the subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...