Tag Archives: grammar
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Nouns and the Realpolitik
Leave a commentApril 14, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
I run a search for the term Web site and find these: website, web site, web-site, Website, Web site, Web-site, …
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Oddball Grammar
Leave a commentSeptember 17, 2014 by bradcharlesbeals
Grammar gems from the oddball category: 1. Compound possession… Mike’s and Pam’s phones were stolen. (Each owned a phone; both …
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6 places where FAT likes to hide: OR the hardest thing about writing
1March 20, 2014 by bradcharlesbeals
Extra words don’t make better writers any more than extra fat makes better people. But as my students and clients …
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Writer, Proof Thyself
Leave a commentAugust 18, 2011 by bradcharlesbeals
Proofing your own copy is like tickling yourself—you’d think it would work, but it doesn’t. Just ask Lynne Truss, the …
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