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"Is the girl giving the boy a present?"
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Apr 11
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Catherine Johnson
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Teach students what "finite" & "nonfinite" verbs are
Easy for native speakers, not hard for L2
Apr 11
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Catherine Johnson
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Pronoun politics
Punditry vs. hospitality
Apr 10
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Katharine Beals
Why grammar is hard
Sometimes the old ways aren't best
Apr 8
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Catherine Johnson
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How to teach students to write better than a robot, and why
Feb 2
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Catherine Johnson
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A linguist looks at blather
Feb 12
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Katharine Beals
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Andrew constructs two more questions
Mar 8
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Catherine Johnson
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A reading passage you won’t find on the new SAT
Mar 30
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Katharine Beals
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CEOs typing badly
Mar 12
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Catherine Johnson
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5 principles of good writing (and why I had to track them down)
Feb 8
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Catherine Johnson
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Andrew writes a "how long" question
"How long has the girl been paddling?"
Apr 4
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Catherine Johnson
A simple definition of "complete sentence"
Easy to teach, easy to learn and use
Mar 30
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Catherine Johnson
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A reading passage you won’t find on the new SAT
But not because it’s rated as a middle school text
Mar 30
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Katharine Beals
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Hard questions on SentenceWeaver today
Plugging away
Mar 28
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Catherine Johnson
Remember PECS?
Memories from the wayback machine
Mar 26
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Catherine Johnson
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A jolting AI detection report about my "Jolting Connections" post
With the option to "humanize" it--for a fee
Mar 24
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Katharine Beals
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Why massed practice doesn't work
Introducing "reward prediction error"
Mar 21
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Catherine Johnson
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