When an irate reader wrote the editors of Writer’s Digest Magazine because of “incorrect” grammar I used in a poem, I was concerned. I had written “my sister and I” after a verb: “the ones my father gave my sister and I.” The reader, a retired English teacher, said the magazine had certainly scraped the … Continue reading →
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About Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender is a Computational Linguistics Professor at the University of Washington. Her publications include Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, Second Edition and many articles in such publications as Journal of Linguistics and Journal of East Asian Linguistics .
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