Tag: grammar
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February 14, 2009 04:17 PM EST --
The apostroph doesn't make ANYTHING a plural!
I understand the occasional finger-stutter; I get it when fat-finger strikes; dyslexia is an old friend, and I do Spoonerisms without thinking about . . .
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May 14, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
A number of people are missing great opportunities to use the apostrophe in their insults. Because I want every member to be eligible for the Apostrophe Award, I offer this guide to using the . . .
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May 24, 2009 10:13 AM EDT --
You've heard the old saying about being your own worst critic. I'm not only my own worst critic, I'm a terrible editor of my own work. Yes, I am and I am not afraid to admit it.
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January 20, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Vector Mornington of Tweedsville, Ohio, reports that the town council has just approved the hiring of a grammar watchdog to work under Police Chief Deke Reese. The duties of this new protector and . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:31 AM EDT --
Last week Grammar Grater Luke Taylor headed out to the Minnesota State Fair to record podcasts... this week to discuss a word that is fun to say "and even more fun to spell".... onomatopoeia. From . . .
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July 04, 2007 01:29 PM EDT --
Please play. This is not a slam dunk. I have so many grammatical errors to complain about in this article. I know many people don't realize them. I'm not talking typos. . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
Okay, I've seen so many people doing this that I can't take it any more. I'm not the best speller in the world, but please, please, please stop using loose when you mean lose.
Loose . . .
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July 03, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
Which way are we as Americans and as human beings headed? There are only two ways to go - either forward or backward; we cannot stand still.
In the fields of science, medicine and communications . . .
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August 04, 2008 06:20 PM EDT --
There are some things that bother me when I read articles or stories. I don't offer criticisms in general, unless someone asks specifically and then only in a private message. But I thought this might . . .
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June 21, 2009 01:56 PM EDT --
Your friends send you text messages with horrible signs attached!
My friend is on vacation in Gatlinburg, TN and saw this sign on a pizza shop called "A Slice of Heaven". She knew it would . . .
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January 10, 2007 10:05 AM EST --
I realize that my grammar is horrible. I grew up in a household that was somewhere between middle class and poor. We struggled and I know I suffered in school. Academically I performed well . My social . . .
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September 08, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
I am not a great typist and I hate making typo's or spelling errors. Don't you wish we could spell and grammar check our articles here on Gather?
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February 24, 2008 10:42 PM EST --
Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch , 1872
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~Mark Twain
Critics are . . .
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May 02, 2008 10:44 PM EDT --
Their some words ewe simply have two no. Know amount of help from you're favorite word processor or spell checker is going to help you. You can right a sentence that the spell checker . . .
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August 28, 2008 09:35 AM EDT --
Do you know that a sentence's meaning in American English (as opposed to English English) is different depending on whether you use "that" and "which" in it? . . .
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April 14, 2007 09:00 PM EDT --
I recently received a chatty Gather email in which a writer lamented that he had received very few comments on his recent travel article. I read the article and discovered that it had several spelling . . .
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June 26, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
I've only been here a very short time but the cruel mistreatment of the apostrophe on Gather has been made very apparent to me. Again and again, apostrophe abuse has reared its (that's its . . .
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March 09, 2008 03:50 PM EDT --
I have witnessed every grammatical atrocity imaginable perpetrated here on Gather. From improper word usage, to spelling errors, to the most heinous slang. Where will it all end? Our . . .
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June 20, 2008 11:17 PM EDT --
I know evaluating any single slice of the world at large and drawing a conclusion from it is bad science, okay? That being said, I guess I am not just looking at the internet on sites like Gather, . . .
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February 22, 2009 09:36 PM EST --
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