From a book I read:
"My classified ad has born fruit."
"to be born" = to come out of mama: I wasn't born yesterday.
"to bear" = to manage/deal with: I have borne many tragedies.
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DOWN WITH CRIMINAL SENTENCES!!
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"The Writer" Magazine Column
In 2009 and 2010, The Writer published 20 online columns and one print article of mine. These essays covered everything from semicolons to wordiness. The full text of all 21 are here on my blog!
Criminal Sentence Rap Sheet
- Blatant Self-Promotion (6)
- Books You Might Like (If You've Already Read Mine) (2)
- Capitalization (11)
- Dumb Mistakes (60)
- Encounters at Stores (2)
- Facebook account (1)
- Grammar (220)
- Grammar in the news (11)
- Grammar in Unexpected Places (2)
- Grammar-Related Articles (1)
- Guest post (2)
- Guest-written Episodes for Grammar Girl (73)
- National Grammar Day (2)
- poll picture (1)
- Poll Results (172)
- Punctuation (163)
- Questions from You (21)
- Questions to You (1)
- Rewriting Practice (1)
- Spelling (213)
- Style (65)
- Tips (2)
- Truly Criminal (2)
- weirdness (11)
- Word Choice (46)
- Wordiness (12)
- Writer Magazine (22)
- Your Own Criminal Sentence (1)
About Me
- The Sentence Sleuth
- I'm a copy editor and writer. I wrote The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve the Mysteries of Weak Writing, published in 2006 and now available in paperback. In 2007-2008, I wrote "The Sentence Sleuth" column for Writer's Digest magazine.
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- Criminal Sentence 503: Blockhead Headline
- Criminal Sentence 502: Fiction on Fire
- Criminal Sentence 501: Being of the Grammatical Pe...
- Criminal Sentence 500: My Name Is Boring
- Poll Results 118
- Criminal Sentence 499: Un-princely Error
- Criminal Sentence 498: Word Invention
- Criminal Sentence 497: Calling All Sailors
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- Criminal Sentence 496: I Want to Close My Eyes
- Poll Results 117
- Criminal Sentence 495: Not Your Standard Sentence
- Criminal Sentence 494: Bear with Me
- Criminal Sentence 493: A New Instrument
- Criminal Sentence 492: This Site Make Me Complain
- Poll Results 116
- Guest Post: Verbification
- Another Writing Blog to Investigate
- Criminal Sentence 491: Frequent Error
- Criminal Sentence 490: Under a Proofreader's Care
- Criminal Sentence 489: Faux Fo
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1 comment:
I don't think I'd want to eat born fruit.
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