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Talk About a Holiday Special: Everything Is Free at Target!
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever I know that retailers always try to top each other during the Christmas shopping season, but Target has seemingly gotten carried away: Everything in the store is free, at … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas shopping, grammar, guest, guest/host, host, language, target department store, writing
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Tone Check
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Did you run a grammar check, spell check, and tone check before sending that important e-mail to your boss? If you were like me (until fairly recently), I didn’t … Continue reading
Come On, Dictionary
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever When you heard that refudiate, Sarah Palin’s mistaken combination of refute and repudiate, was made one of the New Oxford American Dictionary’s words of the year, I’m sure that … Continue reading
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Tagged politics, refudiate, refudiate word of the year, Sarah Palin, seth meyers
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Punctuation with However
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Punctuation errors are fairly common, and one of the most common is when using the word however to connect two independent clauses. It’s not as simple as just slapping … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, however, language, punctuation error, sally from peanuts, writing
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Language And Grammar Resources (and More)
In case you hadn’t noticed, we changed the look of the blog recently. The most recent template didn’t highlight the pages on the site as well as this one does, so let me introduce (or re-introduce) some of the pages … Continue reading
National Unfriend Day
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever According to Jimmy Kimmel, Facebook is cheapening the definition of the word friend and is, therefore, proposing a National Unfriend Day for November 17. This idea fits in with … Continue reading
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Interview: A New Definition, Thanks to Randy Moss
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever I love it when professional athletes talk. If it’s not a humorous mixture of mangled cliches and mixed metaphors, then it’s some outlandish, self-centered statement that only a media … Continue reading
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Tagged humor, language, literally the best language book ever, paul yeager, professional athletes, randy moss, sports
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I Wish I Was Wrong, But I’m Not: More on Subjunctive
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Sherry previous wrote about the subjunctive mood (Subjunctive Uses Were Not Was) a while ago, but I recently wrote about it on my writing tips for my job at … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, I wish I was, I wish I were, language, subjunctive, subjunctive error, was versus were, writing
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If/Then Construction
When I put my meteorology hat aside and focus on editing, one of the most persistent errors I see is with the if/then construction when using a conditional sentence. When one clause of sentence is only true if a condition … Continue reading
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Awesome Hurricane Katrina Video
By Paul Yeager, author of Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities and Cloudy and Cool. Awesome is often used to mean something incredibly good, but technically, it means something that inspires awe of any type. When I saw that the … Continue reading
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