Ellen is at the Grammar Table

@ThomasHall17 @PivoCerveza I've heard it before, but not a lot.

@PivoCerveza @GrammarTable I've encountered it in too many different places. Also with another verb I can't recall now.

"She arrived to school." Has anyone else noticed that people are now saying "arrive to (a place)" instead of "arrive at (a place)"? I've been seeing/hearing this construction a lot. cc: @GrammarTable

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@mrbigwalt 😁

@GrammarTable I also don’t want to capitalize “the” in the Ohio State University. Even OSU calls it OSU, not TOSU. That’s just an aside since I’m still 4 months away from SEC football, and I’m missing it.

Do you want to capitalize the "the" in the sentence below? (Please set aside any italics issues for now.) That's the New York Times article I was telling you about.

@Rondowriter 😄

@GrammarTable Not a chance in hell. It's not dialogue.

Would you add a comma after "wrote" in the sentence below? It was Mark Twain who wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice."

@alfabrk 😄

@GrammarTable I would. But I'm worried that I may be the victim of the personal preferences and prescriptive approaches to language of professor types at British universities.

@Ivan_Soto I'm envisioning this on a T-shirt.

@GrammarTable How can anyone defend a comma between a transitive verb and its direct object, unless it is to insert, within two commas, an adverbial clarification of the transitive verb. Shhh! 😅😅😅

@jolie_marieII 😁

@GrammarTable Yay! Logic lives here (at least).

"Which is yours?" is fine. So is "Which are yours?" Both work depending on the context, so "can" is the answer here.

@alk_info 😄

@GrammarTable That’s a perfect example of the battles I refuse to have with native speakers who KNOW that their English is better than mine…

Which of these sound acceptable to you? 1. Your bill is ready to review. 2. A new version of the software is ready to install.

@MitchFriedfeld Someone emailed me about it earlier today—hence the poll.

@GrammarTable I see what you're getting at, I think: neither is technically correct but very few would think twice if hearing or seeing it in everyday use. Preliminary poll results bear this out.

The word “which” ______ (must, can, can’t) be used with a singular verb.

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@BruvverEccles Oh no, Eccles.

@GrammarTable Who lived. I ran into them in my car.

What's your preference? Last night I ran into a couple _________ two doors down from us.

@davidrmarsh @flipdrivel Me too! I need to come visit!

@flipdrivel @GrammarTable Most British English speakers would say “who live”.

@tipofgoldberg That's what I do.

@GrammarTable I went with "who live". Who, because they're human, I assume. Live, because I see "couple" as a collective noun. I'm more rigid on the "who" than the "live".

@flipdrivel The choice is affected by those differences but not determined by them. Lots of variety.

@GrammarTable Classic American/British difference surely

@jolie_marieII It does. I wasn't trying to be confusing! 😀

@GrammarTable My response assumes the sentence refers to a couple of human beings.