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Today’s Supreme Court unanimously and actively embraces a progressive writing style, rebelling against old-school grammar rules, according to my study of 10,000 pages of opinions from the past decade.
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Jill Barton, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
The demonstration only translated around 250 words using six grammar rules — mostly brief statements in Russian about science, law and military affairs that were converted into English in a matter of seconds.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Sara comes from a society where the wrong grammar choice, or lack of glove, or showing the wrong part of your ankle is shocking and horrifying.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
Each header tag—which only establishes a relative size, not an absolute one, part of the semantic richness of the web’s flexible grammar—builds on the last, creating progressively larger nesting dolls.
—Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
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Jill Barton, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
The demonstration only translated around 250 words using six grammar rules — mostly brief statements in Russian about science, law and military affairs that were converted into English in a matter of seconds.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Sara comes from a society where the wrong grammar choice, or lack of glove, or showing the wrong part of your ankle is shocking and horrifying.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
Each header tag—which only establishes a relative size, not an absolute one, part of the semantic richness of the web’s flexible grammar—builds on the last, creating progressively larger nesting dolls.
—Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Grammar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grammar. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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