An interesting article from my local paper:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/08/22/20080822grammarcops0822.html
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- Criminal Sentence 85: Compound Subjects
- A Punctuation Encounter
- Criminal Sentence 84: Site vs. Sight
- Criminal Sentence 83: Overused Quotation Marks
- Poll Results 1
- "Typo Vigilantes"
- Criminal Sentence 82: Hyphens or Em Dashes
- Criminal Sentence 81: Where to Put Descriptions
- Criminal Sentence 80: "-ly" Adverbs
- Criminal Sentence 79: "Heighth" Is Not a Word
- Criminal Sentence 78: Parallel Sentences
- Criminal Sentence 77: Passive vs. Active Voice
- Criminal Sentence 76: Colon or Semicolon?
- Criminal Sentence 75: Using "the"
- Criminal Sentence 74: Ambiguous Sentence
- Criminal Sentence 73: Do Elite Athletes Have Wings?
- Criminal Sentence 72: Teacher's, Please Pay Attention
- Continuing from CS 69: Restrictive vs. Nonrestrictive
- Criminal Sentence 71: Hoard vs. Horde
- Criminal Sentence 70: Another Lovely Misplaced Mod...
- Criminal Sentence 69: Appositives with Commas
- Criminal Sentence 68: "That" or "Who"?
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1 comment:
At some point in time, plain old typos and incorrect grammar dissolve into folk art and quaint regional dialect memorabilia. One would think a Dartmouth graduate would have a sense of that difference.
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