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What's the use?

grammarcops wrote 19 hours ago: Today there is lots of buzz around usage of use vs. utilize. What fodder for us! The tweets (from Tw … more →

Tags: General, GrammarGripes (pet peeves), Tips, Vocabulary Builders, @GrammarCops, Computer, confusion, critics, dictionary

Cross over to the literate side

Laura wrote 1 day ago: In an article about DVDs on Yahoo! Movies, the writer makes some errors that any competent proofread … more →

Tags: Apostrophes, capitalizing, possessives, <punctuation>, Wrong Words, Apostrophe, capitalization, Cross-Over, crossover

It's not surprising

Laura wrote 3 days ago: Everyone knows that Michael Jackson had three children, and not the two kids named here on Yahoo! Sh … more →

Tags: Errors of fact, Verbs, Unnecessary Words, Typo, verb tense, Extra word, unnecessary word, factual error

It's not surprising

Laura wrote 3 days ago: Everyone knows that Michael Jackson had three children, and not the two kids named here on Yahoo! Sh … more →

Tags: Errors of fact, Verbs, Unnecessary Words, Typo, verb tense, Extra word, unnecessary word, factual error

Brachiate

skippy14 wrote 3 days ago: brachiate \BRAY-kee-ayt\ verb to progress by swinging from hold to hold by the arms Did you know? Ce … more →

Tags: Poem, Word, Poetry, brachiate

Do California lawmakers want a slap or a tickle?

Laura wrote 4 days ago: California lawmakers are facing touch choices according to the Yahoo! front page: I wonder if one o … more →

Tags: Subject-Verb Agreement, Wrong Words, Verbs, Typo, wrong word

Teaching Verbs to standard 1. !!!!!!!

madhuriesingh wrote 5 days ago: My son has started learning verbs in english. He has very easily picked up the concept of Verbs as A … more →

Tags: Teaching Kids the fun Way, Pune, D.P.S., St. Mary's, madhurie singh, toddler, Madhuri Singh, madhuriesingh, Kid

We loves us some 'Real Housewives,' but not this

Laura wrote 1 week ago: We loves us some “Real Housewives.” What we don’t love is this article from Yahoo! … more →

Tags: misspellings, capitalizing, <punctuation>, Subject-Verb Agreement, Wrong Words, Verbs, hyphens, misspelling, capitalization

Common sense tense

Laura wrote 1 week ago: Someone over at Yahoo! Shine could use a little help with some basic language skills. Like how to wr … more →

Tags: Adjectives, capitalizing, hyphens, modifiers, <punctuation>, Titles, Verbs, capitalization, hyphen

More on affect/effect

Charity Thompson wrote 1 week ago: I have some very smart readers! Not one, but two of you pointed out this weekend that my general rul … more →

Tags: Grammar, Parts of Speech, affect, Effect, Noun

SPAM: honorary noun gone bad ...

grammarcops wrote 1 week ago: (click here to read about SPAM®) From The Writer’s Almanac 7-5-09 It was on this day in 1937 … more →

Tags: General, GrammarGab (quotes), Vocabulary Builders, Advertisement, Brand, Canned, Commercial, confusion, definition

'Affect' or 'effect'?9 comments

Charity Thompson wrote 1 week ago: ‘Affect’ and ‘effect’– is there really a difference? Yes! Yes, there c … more →

Tags: Parts of Speech, Adjective, affect, Affection, affective, Effect, Effective, Noun

Conjugate Verbs

myfrenchquest wrote 1 week ago: Hey! I would like all of you to take a look at this website. Reverso Conjugator Conjugating Verbs if … more →

Tags: interesting resources, conjugate, French, language, Learn French

Gov. Mark Sanford admitted crossing lines

Laura wrote 1 week ago: Is the past tense of the verb admit so difficult to get right? For this Yahoo! Shine writer, apparen … more →

Tags: Verbs, verb tense, admit, admitted

Sentence and Text: English Grammar1 comment

subtropic wrote 1 week ago: In the English language, there are four categories of grammatical units: words, phrases, clauses, an … more →

Tags: Cowwect Gwammaws, Adjective, Adverb, auxiliary, Clause, English, Grammar, guide, language

Invigilate

skippy14 wrote 1 week ago: invigilate \in-VIJ-uh-layt\ verb to keep watch : supervise, monitor Did you know? Keep your eyes ope … more →

Tags: Poem, INVIGILATE, Poetry, Word

Parsing 102: Henry James 4 comments

gotheca wrote 2 weeks ago: She herself had been established in Venice for fifteen years and had done a great deal of good there … more →

Tags: Fiction Writing Advice, Grammar, Adjective, Adverb, Article, auxiliary verb, Clause, Compound Sentence, Conjunction

hngalh

ABiliTY wrote 2 weeks ago: Dansk (Danish) = kende English = know … more →

Object naming and action-verb generation in Parkinson's disease: A fMRI study

Callier Library wrote 2 weeks ago: Results Reaction times in GenAMBO were significantly longer than in the other three conditions (ONMB … more →

Tags: Research, Keywords: Parkinson's disease, language, Semantics of action


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