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Hater-ation for the Hyphen Nation
Have you noticed how the effects of the American Revolution are being reversed by an invasion of British scolds? The most famous, of course, is Simon Cowell, the imperious judge on “American Idol” (“Go find your vocal coach [...]
Posted in Grammar on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we’re in a hurry, quickly dashing off emails with typos, grammatical shortcuts, and it’s expected. It’s no big deal. But other times, we try to invest a little care, avoiding mistakes so that there’s no confusion about what we’re [...]
Posted in Grammar on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
1. Your vs. you’re
This one drives me insane, and it’s become extremely common among bloggers. All it takes to avoid this error is to take a second and think about what you’re trying to say.
“Your” is a possessive pronoun, as in “your car” or “your blog.” “You’re” is a contraction for “you are,” as in [...]
Posted in Grammar on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Punctuation Guide
If you have read the punctuation book “Eats, shoots and leaves” by Lynne Truss, here’s a companion to it: A PDF document with a brief outline of the rules of punctuation along with exercises( and the answers in the end).
Posted in Grammar on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“In one of the megachain bookstores, a woman asked a young clerk for the author of Like Water for Chocolate. After the salesperson had spent five minutes searching and still could not locate the famous title, the customer realized that the young man had been looking for Water from Chocolate.
It’s like … you know.
Nowadays, three [...]
Posted in Grammar on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Periods, Exclamation marks and question marks
Attached is a PowerPoint presentation on the correct use of periods, exclamation points, and question marks.
Posted in Grammar on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Common Errors in English
Attached is a Word document outlining a few of the common errors in English. These can be easily avoided with a little awareness.
Posted in Grammar on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I often hear people saying “I can’t able to do this”. Well, the right way to put that would be “I am not able to do this” or “I’m unable to do this”.
Just one of my pet peeves:)
Posted in Grammar on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apart from some very obvious differences between US English and UK English, such as the spellings(US: color, traveled, dialog–UK: colour, travelled, dialogue) and the use of the serial comma( in American English), here are some more differences.
1) Singular and Plural nouns:In US English, you would say ” The Clash is a well-known band” wheareas in UK [...]
