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group name: grammargrater
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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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May 01, 2008 03:56 PM EDT --
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This week, we're trying to take the confusion out of the words further and farther . Mary Jo from Antigo, . . .
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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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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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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 19, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
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No other part of speech causes as much confusion-and demonstrates . . .
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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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March 27, 2008 12:49 PM EDT --
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Today we're going to dig into the definitions and etymologies of two words that often get confused and used interchangeably: upside . . .
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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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January 03, 2008 01:18 PM EST --
Like music, language is a living organism that's always growing, evolving and changing.
To that point, I recently a newspaper article that contained this sentence:
The research group . . .
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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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March 20, 2008 04:58 PM EDT --
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This week, we talked about a popular expression that sometimes gets confused. The topic was suggested to us by Beverly from Franklin, . . .
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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 10, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
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Catherine from Edina, Minnesota, sent this message to us:
"Please address the word preventive . . .
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June 12, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
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This week's topic was suggested by Abby, a listener from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Abby wrote this to us: . . .
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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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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 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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April 24, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
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This week, we're looking at a linguistic foible that's actually heard quite often in conversational speech in Minnesota. . . .
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