All of you realize that many people believe that grammar has a really bad name. Why it could happen? Everybody seems doesn’t notice that It is associated with an obscure perseverance on niceties of expression, with pronouncements that some expression is ‘incorrect’ or ‘correct’ (even though nobody seems to know what ‘correctness’ is), and with consulting authorities to find out what we ‘ought’ to say. This view arises from the conception of grammar as a means of regulating behavior. (continue reading…)
