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The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

Skip downward to go straight to the dirty tips and tricks. Have you ever had a preening pedant correct you when you split an infinitive? Has a self-righteous scold kindly let you know that one thing ...