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Soif you don't already know, I have a weekly video series on my Facebook page where I explain thorny grammar issues that tend to crop up when I'm editing. I'm a giant grammar nerd, and spreading the good grammar gospel is one of my missions in life.

This week's grammar video was on one of my personal bugaboos, lay vs lie, and when to use which one. When I was working as a medical editor, I had to edit reports that went to lawyers and could potentially become part of a court case, so proper language was more essential than ever. I had to look up the difference between "lay" and "lie" so many times because I could never keep it straight in my head.

ELLEN: I began about five point something years ago to set up on the streets of New York City with a pop-up grammar advice stand. And people just come up to me and ask me language questions. The why is because it seemed like fun.

ELLEN: So, a simpler way of explaining this is, Swahili is one of the multiple languages that. Does that make you want to change your answer at all? Anyone, does that make you want to go plural, where you went singular before?

ELLEN: I like that question a lot. So, for me, that is very relevant, because these are about human tale for me. People share personal human tales. I have to treat those with respect. So, that matters to me very much. And thank you for that question.

DANIEL: I thought Spanish was an accidental similarity, and I thought that maybe the Smi was a borrowing, which would count as related, not genetically, but through borrowing. That was my answer. Hedvig, what do you think?

BEN: Well, question, is it possible that the three boys are identical triplets? And so, there is some sort of roster to the stacking. Meaning, that at any given instance of Vincent Adultman, you were getting a different person in the stack order.

HEDVIG: This has been a really fun show, and we like to continue making our show. And one of the things that makes that possible is the support from listeners like you who choose to donate a little bit of money every month on patreon.com. You can support Because Language that way.

DANIEL: You can also become a patron. Your support means the regular episodes are free for everybody. It means we can get transcripts from SpeechDocs so that our shows are readable and searchable. How many times has Hedvig mentioned hating lime green? You can check by looking through our transcripts.

This grammar course offers a wonderful chance to develop language skills! It encourages learners to develop a command of English grammar through projects, games and writing practice. Learners build spelling, punctuation and grammatical skills that are key to successful communication.

New Grammar Time puts the sparkle into teaching grammar through cute cartoons and appealing characters, both in the book and in the grammar-packed CD-ROM. New Grammar Time is great in class or at home and perfect for preparing students for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test, KET, and PET.

Mekita Rivas, SNR communications and project associate, publishes a biweekly feature called "Grammar Guru."

Every other week, the Grammar Guru will share writing tips to help make your work as polished as possible. Some of these tips may address common spelling errors, while others will examine the many nuances of the English language.

Grammar Guru Tip #2

Time. We never seem to have enough of it, do we? It tends to fly by when we're enjoying ourselves and inch along when we just wish the day would be over already. But we all need to reference it, so here's how to do so correctly.

Two periods are used. It is 7 a.m., not 7 am.

For morning times, use a.m. For afternoon and evening times, use p.m.

Singular numbers are used for the sake of succinctness. Only use the full clock time if it cannot be denoted with a singular number.

For example, it is 7 a.m., not 7:00 a.m.

It is 7:30 a.m., not 7:30 am.

Remember: Avoid redundancies like "10 a.m. in the morning" or "8 p.m. at night."

Example:

The conference is set to begin at 9 a.m. Appetizers and drinks will be served beginning at 12:30 p.m.

Need some grammar guidance? The UNL Style Guide ( ) is a great resource for all university employees. If you have writing questions that the style guide doesn't answer, feel free to email the Grammar Guru at mri...@unl.edu.

Within each set, you have already arranged each of them from most specific to most general: 5pm is more specific than this Sunday, for example. You could choose to arrange from most general to most specific too: this Sunday at 5pm. But in that case you should probably rearrange the place adverbs too, to go from most general (USA Shopping Center) to most specific (KFC). That is a matter of preference and style rather than a rule per se. The way you have them arranged is fine.

When you are specifying which KFC, you need the definite article. You can say I'll see you in KFC, but once you're narrowing it down to a specific one, you have to say I'll meet you in the KFC on the first floor.

If the shopping center is called just USA, and you're adding the shopping center for disambiguation (the first floor of USA seems, um, rather vast) then you need to lose the capital S and add a definite article. It's a bit tricky to explain, but I'll try. Suppose I've been trying to choose between Harmon-Kardon and Bose speakers. Once I am sure, I might say:

Here, I'm using Bose to specify which speakers among the ones I was considering. Since it's a specification, I need the definite article. It works just like the green bag or some other specification using an adjective.

I don't think there's an official requirement on the ordering in which coordinates like these need to be presented. As a general rule for myself though, I like to list them in progressively increasing magnitudes of specificity. For example, the following list should be ordered like so:

It seems to me that people will ask, Am I free on that day? Am I free at that time? Can I get to that place? So it should be date, time, place: "I would like to meet you on Sunday, at 5 p.m., in the KFC on the first floor of the USA Shopping Center."

Got your attention? Don't worry, this review is still SFW. We're talking about "explicit" (as opposed to "implicit") grammar treatment strategies. Implicit methods use under-the-radar techniques like recasting and focused stimulation to increase use of a grammar target. In contrast, explicit approaches call for directly teaching the rules for using the target structure. One example of an explicit grammar treatment program is Shape Coding, which uses shapes and symbols to visually represent grammar structures. Research supports both implicit and explicit methods, but the evidence supporting explicit grammar treatment is growing.

One of the things that hurts my brain the most when scanning my social media feeds or reading blog posts is seeing bad or just plain wrong grammar. An easy way to make yourself or your business look professional is using correct grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.

Remembering where to put the time words, such as "yesterday," "tomorrow," "this week," etc. in a sentence is really important in order to speak Chinese correctly. In Chinese you get two equally correct choices.

So if you start speaking with "time first" English word order, you can carry on and get away with it. If, however, you're saving the time word for the end of the sentence, you can be pretty sure that it doesn't sound at all natural to your Chinese audience.

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You may have heard that word order in Chinese is similar to that of English and, compared to a language like Japanese, it is. Fairly quickly, though, you'll realize there are quite a few ways that the word order of even relatively simple sentences simply don't match in Chinese and English.

Time words, the WHEN part of a sentence, have a special place in Chinese. They usually come at the beginning of a sentence, right after the subject. Occasionally you'll see them before the subject, but the place you won't be seeing them is at the end of the sentence where they frequently appear in English.

There are some special verbs which seem to be allowed to break the rules (see also location complements). For these special verbs, the WHERE information comes after the verb rather than before. Generally, this is when the post-verbal place word denotes a destination or place someone or someone could or did move to in order to do the action denoted by the verb.

It's important to remember that these verbs are exceptions. If you're not sure where the place phrase should go, it's usually safer to put it before the verb. This is the normal way to modify a verb in Chinese.

Sometimes, a noun will have more than one detail that you want to express. When this is the case, Chinese has a specific order for the attributives that describe the noun. It's important to keep this order in mind as you are describing something.

Remember, it isn't necessary to include every single one of these attributes, but when they are all present , this is the order that they should come in. If some are missing, just jump over that section and move onto the next. The examples below will help make this clearer.

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