Tag: words
member name: Luke Taylor
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 12, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
Words that sound alike but have different meanings or spellings are called homophones. A simple example of this would be the words dear and deer.
While everyone reading this is probably able to distinguish . . .
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September 06, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
The topic of this week's Grammar Grater comes from a question we received from Jason, a listener in Irvine, California:
"Please discuss nauseated vs. nauseous. I was only taught that people . . .
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September 20, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
Sometimes there are things in the English language that are just, well...icky. One of those things is distinguishing when to use who or whom. There are some tricks that can help with this. Even better, . . .
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October 19, 2007 10:40 AM EDT --
"It's wonderful! It's fantastic! It's the penultimate film of the year!"
Wait a minute...the penultimate film of the year? That's probably supposed to sound . . .
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October 25, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
On the bus this week, I happened to sit within earshot of a couple avid fishermen who were talking about their reluctance to go out on a windy day. "There were whitecaps on the lake," one of . . .
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December 20, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
In the past few weeks, Grammar Grater received a couple of messages from listeners about the use of the words bring and take . There actually is a grammatical difference between these words, but it's . . .
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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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