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Monthly Error Report
It’s definately been an exciting month here at languageandgrammar.com, so my monthly post on all of our errors is gonna be a little late. When I wasn’t being handy (at least the stainless steel appliances and pre-owned car didn’t break), … Continue reading
(Basic) Anatomy of a Sentence
In talking about sentences, you’ll hear people (especially English teachers) use the words subject and predicate sometimes, while using subject and verb other times. You might, at that time, ask yourself What is a predicate, and why is it taking … Continue reading
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Stuck in One Place
Redundancy is common in our language, and we use many of the redundant phrases without even realizing it. Blazing inferno, terrible tragedy, and heavy downpours are three examples that I included in my book; these are said so often that we … Continue reading
I’m Very Handy
I’m a writer, not a computer repairman–and I have proof. Here at the languageandgrammar.com headquarters, we recently needed to buy a new laptop. It’s not that the old laptop quit working, but the hinges that held the screen in an … Continue reading
Wanna Bet?
Wanna isn’t a word; it’s a verbal laziness, same as the non-word gonna. It started as only a spoken error, but now, it has made the all-too-familiar leap to a written one, at least on the Internet. Do you want … Continue reading
Not the Only One Who Hates Verbing!
I know what’s going on. I know that co-workers are starting to speak to me less often for fear that what they say will end up in the blog. I’ve noticed the family members giving me evil looks because they … Continue reading
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Tagged calvin and hobbes, grammar, language, verbs being used as nouns, writing
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Whose/Who’s Woods These Are…
This is another one of those problems of mistaking an apostrophe for a possessive. It doesn’t sound likely, I know, but it really is an easy mistake to make. It happens with its/it’s, and it happens with whose/who’s. Whose, the … Continue reading
Good Morning America on Language
A friend who has read Literally, the Best Language Book Ever sent me a link to a recent Good Morning America segment in which the hosts talked about a recent MSN-Zogby data poll about annoying co-workers. It turns out that … Continue reading
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Run, Ran: Have You Run into This Grammar Error?
The present tense of run is run. The association members run a sloppy office. The past tense is ran. I ran out of patience. The past participle is run. I have run into resistance every time I’ve tried to solve … Continue reading
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Daring Rescue–Part II
You might recall that in the wet days of spring, we stopped the languageandgrammar.com presses just long enough to save nine ducklings from certain demise (Jeff Corwin, Move Over) alongside a busy road. Spring is technically not over yet, and we recently … Continue reading
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