[odawg]

“The concept of antecedent agreement, and indeed of prescriptive rules for grammar, are about 3 generations vanished.”

I looked over an English book about eight years or so ago, and pronoun/antecedent agreement was there.

I also notice that it still appears in any recently written work.

However, grammar has been out of fashion for at least twenty years. That means that in another twenty years, people won’t be able to communicate with the written word.

[mmichaels1970]

However, grammar has been out of fashion for at least twenty years.

no it aint.

[Strident]

Odawg: Fair enough. I agree, it’s still in the books.

I suggest that until TikTok puts in a grammar filter (/snark) few of that set will care.

In academia it’s the forever war, descriptivist vs prescriptivist. I fear our side, the side of proper grammar and language ability, is losing.

Oh well. Bigger fish to fry?

All the best.