New grammar rules and new spellings are being introduced in an attempt to simplify the language.
Those applicants, he says, haven't studied trigonometry, "esoteric" vocabulary or grammar rules in years, nor do they have the time to do so now.
What caught my eye is that their company is Grammarly , the software program that analyzes copy for adherence to some 150-plus grammar rules.
The country has very strict laws on names which must fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules.
But Scots, including many of its peculiar rules of grammar, survived among the working classes.
Also, foreign languages have now been compulsory in the secondary school curriculum since 1992 and the literacy strategy means primary school children are now more familiar with the rules of grammar.
And the NASUWT teaching union pointed out that the rules would allow grammar schools to expand without having to run local consultations.
Meanwhile, the title of the super PAC supporting Mr. Romney, "Restore Our Future, " seems to bend the rules of space and time, if not grammar.
The rules for eligibility are complicated and depend on whether the grammar schools in question are in an area where selection is widespread.
Under the new admissions rules, councils can no longer block the expansion of both grammar and comprehensive schools.
Brown based the grammar for his ten-thousand-word language, called Loglan, on the rules of formal predicate logic used by analytical philosophers.
The AP Stylebook is one of the premier guides for American writers and copy-editors, and its rules dictate how the vast majority of newspapers and magazines use words, phrases, grammar and punctuation.
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