Tag: grammar at work
member name: Luke Taylor
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October 13, 2009 11:36 AM EDT --
We photographed this signpost in a small town in western Wisconsin. The error here is the word careful needs to appear in its adverbial form: carefully . The irony, of course, is that this appears . . .
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October 20, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
Gordon Jarvie, in the Bloomsbury Grammar Guide , writes that a pun is “a figure of speech that uses words in such a way as to convey — and make a play on — their double meaning.” . . .
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October 22, 2009 10:34 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, we're looking at a popular and versatile punctuation mark: the . . .
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November 26, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
Janis Bell knows you, me and everyone we know ... or at least, she knows our most common grammatical pitfalls. "I've been teaching writing for 35 years in many settings," Bell says, "so . . .
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September 17, 2009 02:25 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, we’re talking about adverbs . According to the Gregg Reference Manual . . .
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October 15, 2009 06:13 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, we’re looking a bit deeper into the difference between affect and . . .
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June 05, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
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Perhaps this morning you put on a garment with a zip or zipper , put items into a bag that closed . . .
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June 11, 2009 04:31 PM EDT --
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Last week, Mitzi Gramling, associate general counsel at American Public Media, joined us on the . . .
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December 10, 2009 10:49 AM EST --
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This week’s episode is inspired by a message from Vicki, a listener in Superior, Wisconsin. Vicki . . .
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July 16, 2009 04:58 PM EDT --
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Fowler’s Modern English Usage asserts that, “Lying at the heart of the language is a tendency . . .
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April 17, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
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Jeff Deck wanted to make a difference.
When the 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College attended his five-year reunion, he mingled with . . .
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June 05, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
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This week's topic on Grammar Grater addresses a couple of words that sound alike and come fairly close in meaning, . . .
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May 21, 2009 11:40 AM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, we're looking at a tricky word that presents a confusing picture when . . .
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September 03, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
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This week, producer Brett Baldwin and I travelled to the Minnesota State Fair to talk about a literary . . .
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October 09, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
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(Repeat episode) This week on Grammar Grater, we're taking a question from Leandro in New York, who is learning . . .
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November 09, 2009 10:28 AM EST --
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This week, we’re looking at a pair of useful words that Fowler’s Modern English . . .
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February 21, 2008 01:27 PM EST --
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When paramedics are helping a patient, communications must be clear and precise. So we thought it was very important when we got this message from . . .
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March 07, 2008 09:49 AM EST --
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Daylight saving time has certainly received its share of attention, given last year's date change in North America and the resulting . . .
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May 23, 2008 09:28 AM EDT --
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This week's episode of Grammar Grater addresses a topic we've heard so much about in the news. On May 2, Myanmar (also . . .
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July 03, 2008 12:12 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, our topic was inspired by this note from Lee in Moorhead, Minnesota:
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