“Health care should be universal to maintain the population’s health. Having so many people without lifelong care promotes comorbidities that, as we see now, affect the death rate from this pandemic.”
“Artists designed sculptures that could be touched and played with. Niki de Saint Phalle built the monumental walk-in sculpture Golem in Rabinovich Park, Jerusalem, which has a children’s slide.”
“Whatever approach you use to make notes during a class session, remember that you must still engage in actively learning those notes as soon as possible. Collecting even excellent notes for several weeks and expecting to learn them right before the exam is a recipe for failure. Learning, like exercising to stay fit, cannot be done all at once!”
“The new use of 'they' is direct, and it is for a person whose gender is known, but who does not identify as male or female. If I were introducing a friend who preferred to use the pronoun they, I would say, 'This is my friend, Jay. I met them at work.”
“One common bugbear of the grammatical nitpicker is the singular 'they.' For those who haven’t kept up, the complaint is this: the use of they as a gender-neutral pronoun (as in, “Ask each of the students what they want for lunch.”) is ungrammatical because 'they' is a plural pronoun.”
“First, grammar is very importance because it may help inhance accuracy. Marcel (1853) highlights this point in his book. He clarifies how grammar develops accuracy in communication as “it forms the mind to habits of order and clearness; concurrently with logic and rhetoric, it accustoms learners to accuracy of language, and hence, to accuracy of thinking”(p.424). This means grammar rules can help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly. Therefore, after studying grammar, they will become more accurate when using language.”
“Grammar lays the groundwork for effective communication. Just as an improperly configured telephone wire can cause static during a phone conversation, improper grammar can likewise affect the meaning and clarity of an intended message. Grammar makes written content more readable and in turn more interesting. If it is necessary to repeatedly rephrase sentences while reading, the flow becomes disrupted and involvement in the story halted.”
“All languages undeniably change over the years, and these changes reflect how the words are used. The most important thing about written communication is that it is understood, not that it follows an arcane set of rules that benefit nobody.”
“Modern readers look for a seamless reading experience, consistent and good typography, continuity and emotional connect while reading without too much distraction. The primary focus has to be on the content and the context of the reading material while making it as aesthetically pleasing and interactive as possible. Modern readers love to engage and connect, hence features like taking notes and comments add a lot of value to e-readers.”
“Most native speakers do not know grammar rules. Ask an American, “what is the past perfect tense” and most will not know. But, of course, they use the past perfect tense correctly every day. In fact, they use English grammar effortlessly. They don’t think about it. Rather, native speakers have a “feeling for correctness”. They know what “sounds right” and they know what “sounds wrong”.”
