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How frequent is Ms compared to Mrs and Miss?
What does awesome mean nowadays?
Do you have to use the definite article the in expressions like play /the/ piano?
Can you use siblings instead of brothers and sisters in non-scientific language?
These are just a few of the hundreds of questions on present-day English usage that have beed answered in GramTime News, a free corpus-based newsletter aimed at (among others) non-native teachers of English. Here you can ask your own usage questions, read answers to previous questions and get tips for websites and books that can be used for learning English. There are four issues of GramTime News per year.
To read the latest issue, GramTime News 09:3, go to:
http://www.vxu.se/hum/publ/gtn//09_3/news09_3.xml
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If you want to get information about new issues, you can subscribe to the newsletter by sending an e-mail to: gramtime-request@listserv.vxu.se with the following message: subscribe (and then follow the instructions given in the message you receive).
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Would you like to get in touch with the editors to get more information, ask usage questions, give comments and tips etc.? Please send an e-mail to: gramtime@vxu.se
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Click here to go to the chronological overview of usage questions.
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Click here to go to the alphabetical index of usage questions (the whole list).
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Click here to go to the alphabetical index of usage questions (letter by letter).
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Click here to go to the list of book tips.
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Click here to go to the list of web tips.
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Click here to go to the back issues:
We are the GramTime project:
Editor-in-chief: Hans Lindquist, PhD
Managing editor: Maria Estling Vannestål, PhD
Contributing editor: Magnus Levin, PhD
