Tag: grammar
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 09, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
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This week, we're looking at another common confusion: the word peruse . Alex from Los Angeles, California writes . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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June 26, 2008 12:36 PM EDT --
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We're taking a look at anyway — a transitional phrase that really . . .
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November 08, 2007 05:18 PM EST --
This week's Grammar Grater is written by Grammar Grater's Cory Busse.
There has been no shortage of political debates recently. During the debates, one hears candidates . . .
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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 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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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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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 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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