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Grammar Grater: Ellipsis Incorporated
by Luke Taylor
views: 37 | rating: 10 | comments: 3
October 22, 2009 10:34 PM EDT (shared with group: October 22, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, we're looking at a popular and versatile punctuation mark: the . . . more
Grammar Grater: Grammar At Large — Puns
by Luke Taylor
views: 35 | rating: 10 | comments: 1
October 20, 2009 12:26 PM EDT (shared with group: October 20, 2009) — 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.” . . . more
Grammar Grater: Little-Known Side Effects
by Luke Taylor
views: 23 | rating: 10 | comments: 1
October 15, 2009 06:13 PM EDT (shared with group: October 15, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, we’re looking a bit deeper into the difference between affect and . . . more
October 13, 2009 11:36 AM EDT (shared with group: October 13, 2009) — 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 . . . more
Grammar Grater: Intensify!
by Luke Taylor
views: 31 | rating: 10
October 09, 2009 10:29 AM EDT (shared with group: October 09, 2009) — [ Listen Using RealAudio ] [ Download and Listen to mp3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] (Repeat episode) This week on Grammar Grater, we're taking a question from Leandro in New York, who is learning . . . more
October 01, 2009 03:48 PM EDT (shared with group: October 01, 2009) — [ Listen Using RealAudio ] [ Download and Listen to mp3 ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] (Repeat episode) This week’s topic on Grammar Grater addresses a couple of words that sound alike and come . . . more
September 24, 2009 04:57 PM EDT (shared with group: September 24, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, we’re talking about a figure of speech called metonymy . According . . . more
Grammar Grater: Adverbs are Everywhere
by Luke Taylor
views: 140 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
September 17, 2009 02:25 PM EDT (shared with group: September 17, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, we’re talking about adverbs . According to the Gregg Reference Manual . . . more
Grammar Grater: Homespun Language
by Luke Taylor
views: 55 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
September 10, 2009 03:42 PM EDT (shared with group: September 10, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] “I am a weaver and a spinner,” declares Judy Payne of St. Paul, Minn. “I do a lot of . . . more
September 03, 2009 02:38 PM EDT (shared with group: September 03, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week, producer Brett Baldwin and I travelled to the Minnesota State Fair to talk about a literary . . . more
August 27, 2009 05:45 PM EDT (shared with group: August 27, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ]   This week on Grammar Grater, we’re looking at a trio of words that share a common root . . . more
August 20, 2009 04:21 PM EDT (shared with group: August 20, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, we’re going to examine three words that sound similar yet they have subtle . . . more
Grammar Grater: Look it Up
by Luke Taylor
views: 38 | rating: 10 | comments: 1
August 13, 2009 03:18 PM EDT (shared with group: August 13, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] To inform the content of Grammar Grater, we consult a number of experts and seek answers from expert reference . . . more
Grammar Grater: Some Spicy Expressions
by Luke Taylor
views: 64 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
July 30, 2009 05:28 PM EDT (shared with group: July 30, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week, we feature some lighthearted summer fare by looking at expressions that include the word mustard . . . more
July 16, 2009 04:58 PM EDT (shared with group: July 16, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] Fowler’s Modern English Usage asserts that, “Lying at the heart of the language is a tendency . . . more
Grammar Grater: Now or Then?
by Luke Taylor
views: 40 | comments: 3
July 10, 2009 10:15 AM EDT (shared with group: July 10, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ] This week on Grammar Grater, we're taking a moment to investigate a word that has existed for a very long . . . more
Grammar Grater: On Principle
by Luke Taylor
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July 02, 2009 03:03 PM EDT (shared with group: July 02, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ]   This week, we're taking a look at a pair of homophones . You may recall that homophones are . . . more
Grammar Grater: A-muse and B-muse
by Luke Taylor
views: 55 | rating: 10 | comments: 1
June 18, 2009 03:49 PM EDT (shared with group: June 18, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ]   This week on Grammar Grater, we examine another pair of words that can cause confusion: amuse . . . more
Grammar Grater: The English Language®, part 2
by Luke Taylor
views: 85 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
June 11, 2009 04:31 PM EDT (shared with group: June 11, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ]   Last week, Mitzi Gramling, associate general counsel at American Public Media, joined us on the . . . more
June 05, 2009 02:29 PM EDT (shared with group: June 05, 2009) — [ Listen to 64K MP3 stream ] [ Download and listen to podcast ] [ Subscribe to podcast ]   Perhaps this morning you put on a garment with a zip or zipper , put items into a bag that closed . . . more
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