Tag: language
member name: Luke Taylor
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August 09, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
It’s no one’s fault, but the word me gets a bad rap.
An idea a lot of us carry over from our childhoods is that me is always incorrect. Who doesn't remember this scenario:
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July 06, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Hello, everybody-
Grammar Grater is a new, weekly podcast from Minnesota Public Radio. It's about English words, grammar and usage for the Information Age. Because we live in a time of e-mail, blogs, . . .
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August 02, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Dashes are much more than just lines. They have very specific grammatical jobs. There are actually three types of dashes (excluding track and field events). The typographical dashes are the hyphen [ - . . .
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August 23, 2007 05:15 PM EDT --
Sometimes there are two complete thoughts in a sentence that go well together, but the chemistry doesn't seem quite right. Their future together seems shaky. Getting joined in one sentence . . .
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July 19, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
If you were ever a fan of the classic television show The Honeymooners, you may recall the episode where Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton are learning to play golf. In one of the series' most memorable . . .
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July 26, 2007 03:57 PM EDT --
A few years ago, a lot of people started using the word “impact” in place of the word affect, as in, “How will accounting be impacted by this decision?” It seemed another attempt . . .
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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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August 16, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
An enduring image of summer in Minneapolis is the presence of sailboats on Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun. Out in open water, ivory-white wedges cut their courses as crews hike over gunwales to . . .
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August 30, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
Have you ever gone to the supermarket and been lured into the express checkout aisle because you have Twelve Items or Less? Strictly speaking, it turns out that sign confuses less with fewer.
The words . . .
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September 27, 2007 01:03 PM EDT --
Not too long ago, my friend Josh spotted an advertisement that went to print with a misused apostrophe, so he cut it out and mailed it to me. The headline read, "Train like the Pro's."
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March 13, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
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"Do we have plans next Saturday?"
"The 15 th ?"
"No, no - I mean next Saturday. The . . .
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April 03, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Our subject today is a pair of rather confusing words: uninterested and disinterested .
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English , the word uninterested means simply, "not . . .
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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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April 10, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
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"I feel bad ."
"I feel badly ."
Which is correct?
Today we discuss this common pitfall when writing . . .
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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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