grammar

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Five years into the government’s drive to make grammar schools more inclusive, the results are mixed at best. An investigation by the BBC revealed that a quarter of England’s 160 grammar schools remain woefully behind in offering places to…

With the new feature, built on OpenAI’s GPT-3 large language models, users will be able to provide short prompts to create entire drafts of writing, rewrite text based on conciseness and tone and convert bullet points into paragraphs. SOPA…

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are struggling to get into grammar schools in many parts of England despite changes to admissions procedures aimed at helping them gain entry, according to research.A quarter of England’s 160 state…

Mike Ehrmantraut could never be accused of being unintelligent. Walt may be the expert in all things science-related, but Mike has qualities that the meth cook does not. He is always behind the scenes, doing the heavy…

For the past six weeks, it has felt as if the country has stuck to the exact same Sunday routine. First, we wait until 9pm, then we put Happy Valley on and all stop breathing for an hour.The sheer amount of dread writer Sally Wainwright has…

The weeks leading up to Rishi Rajpopat’s grand linguistic discovery weren’t what one would expect. He spent days lounging on the banks of the River Cam, gazing at the Bridge of Sighs; went on late-night cycle rides through the streets of…

In an apocryphal tale, a verse from the Pañcatantra tells of how Pāṇini was killed by a lion while engrossed in teaching his pupils grammatical derivations in Sanskrit. Such was his dedication. The great Sanskrit grammarian, who lived in…

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions and people talking over each other. From casual…