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Posts Tagged ‘grammar’

Grammar 101: Decades are NOT Possessive

February 2nd, 2012

As a blogger, I spend a few hours everyday reading other blogs and various forms of amateur content around the web. It’s one way to stay on top of what’s hot, while also allowing me to scope out potential talent for my own site. In addition, it gives me a way to monitor grammar. After [...]

Grammar 101: Too Many Acronyms

January 27th, 2012

Technology is supposed to save us time. It’s supposed to make life easier and more convenient, but we inevitably try to cram even more into even less time. For better or for worse, this has given rise to an increasingly daunting number of acronyms and shorthand. Shorthand isn’t anything new and it’s not unique to [...]

Grammar 101: The Internet Changed Everything

January 20th, 2012

Based on the title of today’s post, you may be led to believe that this is going to be a rant on the demise of proper grammar. You may think that I’m about to admonish the rise of text talk, l33t speak, and Internet slang. But that’s not the case. While I could certainly yammer [...]

Grammar 101: All in All vs. All and All

January 13th, 2012

Standard English on its own can be very difficult to master, even for native speakers. There are so many rules and then there are even more exceptions to those rules. English idioms can be more confusing, especially when they get significantly detached from their respective origins. One phrase that I see misused not uncommonly is [...]

Grammar 101: Inverted Sentence Structure

January 3rd, 2012

Writing with good grammar is only one part of the equation. It’s great when you’re spelling is just right and you use the right kind of punctuation in the right places, but you also want your writing to be interesting to read. With that challenge comes the possibility of bending the grammar rules and you [...]