Grammar is a tool that …show more content…
Pullum has shown how White and Strunk’s book “The Elements of Style” has misguided students by acting as opinionated grammar rule book. The unintentional consequences of this book are that student’s grasp of grammar will become limited, which also limits their creative potential. This also relates to the wider issue of how ‘text language’ is becoming mainstream, which is also limited student’s grammatical and communication abilities. Collectively these will, unfortunately, shape the English Language to a simpler form of itself, unless students continue to properly study the English language and English