Tag: vocabulary
group name: grammargrater
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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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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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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 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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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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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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July 03, 2008 12:12 PM EDT --
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This week on Grammar Grater, our topic was inspired by this note from Lee in Moorhead, Minnesota:
"I . . .
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November 13, 2008 04:13 PM EST --
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This week on Grammar Grater, our topic is inspired by a message from Patricia, a listener in Orlando, Fla. . . .
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April 30, 2009 03:54 PM EDT --
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This week's episode was inspired by a message we received from Mike, a listener in Tucson, Arizona. . . .
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December 06, 2007 02:57 PM EST --
In this special edition, Grammar Grater explores the word "flip-flop" as part of Minnesota Public Radio's program In The Loop . This program was taped before In The Loop's live studio . . .
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April 10, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
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This week, we're going to talk about a special type of word formation called an acronym . According . . .
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October 11, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
There’s a lot of great vocabulary we can pick up just by listening to the news. When I was a kid, I remember hearing news stories that contained lines like this:
“Two more city aldermen were . . .
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November 21, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
Grammar Grater comes out a day early this week in observance of the US Thanksgiving holiday.
Sometimes my brothers and I would complain about our homework: it was dull, it was difficult, the usual . . .
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January 31, 2008 10:38 AM EST --
What is it that makes the prodigal son ... prodigal? For a lot of people, it's the fact that he left and came back, but that's not quite right. And the misuse of prodigal doesn't sit well . . .
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