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Each header tag—which only establishes a relative size, not an absolute one, part of the semantic richness of the web’s flexible grammar—builds on the last, creating progressively larger nesting dolls.
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Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
Always check the sender's email address and look for signs of a fake message, like poor grammar or urgent calls to action.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025
For writers, these were the rules of grammar and syntax; for architects, these were the rules of the classical orders, published in handbook form as of 1537.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
The sequence’s familiar horror-movie grammar — surely nothing is lurking behind the building, right? — is hypnotizing.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2025
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Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
Always check the sender's email address and look for signs of a fake message, like poor grammar or urgent calls to action.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025
For writers, these were the rules of grammar and syntax; for architects, these were the rules of the classical orders, published in handbook form as of 1537.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
The sequence’s familiar horror-movie grammar — surely nothing is lurking behind the building, right? — is hypnotizing.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Grammar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grammar. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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