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Elvie posted a blog entry
First ladies and rookie errors
I’m fairly sure that the missing apostrophe from this Yahoo! Shine excerpt is a typo:And the misplaced period (it...
I’m fairly sure that the missing apostrophe from this Yahoo! Shine excerpt is a typo:And the misplaced period (it...
Lenin Nair bookmarked a link
Writers’ Grammar: Count and Non-count Nouns, an Introduction
Here is a small introduction to the count and non-count nouns in writers' grammar.
Here is a small introduction to the count and non-count nouns in writers' grammar.
l0ckergn0me posted a blog entry
Are Punctuation, Usage, Grammar and Spelling Important?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedPUGS is my acronym for the words punctuation, usage,...
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedPUGS is my acronym for the words punctuation, usage,...
guerrero92000 posted a blog entry
Are Punctuation, Usage, Grammar and Spelling Important?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedPUGS is my acronym for the words punctuation, usage,...
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedPUGS is my acronym for the words punctuation, usage,...
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Live Internet Broadcast with Chris Pirillo and Friends - Streaming Life Online
| Topics: Media Blog, punctuation, spellcheck, thesaurus
Live Internet Broadcast with Chris Pirillo and Friends - Streaming Life Online
| Topics: Media Blog, punctuation, spellcheck, thesaurusElvie posted a blog entry
Pussycat Dolls’ brand-new breakup
Yahoo! Music’s brand-new spelling of the adjective breakup: I hate this parting:Posted in Adjectives, Hyphens,...
Yahoo! Music’s brand-new spelling of the adjective breakup: I hate this parting:Posted in Adjectives, Hyphens,...
leegrandin posted a blog entry
English Tips for ESL Learners
English can be a challenging second language. It’s a big language with a daunting amount of vocabulary. Much of that...
English can be a challenging second language. It’s a big language with a daunting amount of vocabulary. Much of that...
Rosie Reilman posted a tweet
@irishbutterfly @filmgeekchic Actually I find the exorbitant punctuation really hilarious. :)
Elvie posted a blog entry
Fantastic-looking errors
I love fantastic-looking handbags, correctly used punctuation, and correctly spelled words. I wish the writer of this excerpt...
I love fantastic-looking handbags, correctly used punctuation, and correctly spelled words. I wish the writer of this excerpt...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Brangelina married?
I’m not generally up on the comings and goings, weddings and divorces of hot Hollywood couples. But I seem to remember...
I’m not generally up on the comings and goings, weddings and divorces of hot Hollywood couples. But I seem to remember...
bucks14 posted a blog entry
Writing Rules You Should Know
2/365 Days - Pen and Paper by athena.Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read. Don’t use no double negatives. Use the...
2/365 Days - Pen and Paper by athena.Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read. Don’t use no double negatives. Use the...
saab_fs posted a blog entry
Basic Rules Of Punctuation For Business Writing
An interesting incident happened in one of our writing seminars. We were talking about punctuation--when and how to use it--and...
An interesting incident happened in one of our writing seminars. We were talking about punctuation--when and how to use it--and...
Elvie posted a blog entry
No longer hush-hush
After being hush-hush about this issue, I’m disclosing that most mistakes involving the use of the hyphen involve the...
After being hush-hush about this issue, I’m disclosing that most mistakes involving the use of the hyphen involve the...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Lynne Truss-kind of nitpicky
Editors can be nitpicky in a Lynne Truss-kind of way. The writer of a Yahoo! omg! blog post gets a thumbs-up for...
Editors can be nitpicky in a Lynne Truss-kind of way. The writer of a Yahoo! omg! blog post gets a thumbs-up for...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Newfound error is newly documented
Someone is going hyphenation-happy on the Yahoo! front page. It’s displaying a newfound misspelling and the incorrect...
Someone is going hyphenation-happy on the Yahoo! front page. It’s displaying a newfound misspelling and the incorrect...
Elvie posted a blog entry
However you write it
Online writing is fun; however, many people make the mistake of thinking that the word however is a conjunction when it’s...
Online writing is fun; however, many people make the mistake of thinking that the word however is a conjunction when it’s...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Who are the worst-rated CEOs?
If you’re interested in who are the worst-rated CEOs, check out Yahoo! Finance’s Tech Ticker:Posted in...
If you’re interested in who are the worst-rated CEOs, check out Yahoo! Finance’s Tech Ticker:Posted in...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Cancer-free: The way to be
It deserves a hyphen in this bit from Yahoo! Shine:Posted in Hyphens, Punctuation Tagged: hyphen,...
It deserves a hyphen in this bit from Yahoo! Shine:Posted in Hyphens, Punctuation Tagged: hyphen,...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Ignoring the question
Did you know that this question on Yahoo! Shine is missing its question mark?Posted in Punctuation, Question...
Did you know that this question on Yahoo! Shine is missing its question mark?Posted in Punctuation, Question...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Rounding up the hyphens
With two potential spellings of the noun roundup on the Yahoo! front page, someone choose one of each:The correct spelling...
With two potential spellings of the noun roundup on the Yahoo! front page, someone choose one of each:The correct spelling...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Serving up a frosty mistreatment
Soft-serve dessert like frozen yogurt is the topic of this blog from Yahoo! Shine: Purveyors of the frosty treat Pinkberry...
Soft-serve dessert like frozen yogurt is the topic of this blog from Yahoo! Shine: Purveyors of the frosty treat Pinkberry...
Envec posted a blog entry
When and How to Use Brackets
Reader John B. Moss asks if there are guidelines for the use of brackets. There are indeed. Academic style guides such as the...
Reader John B. Moss asks if there are guidelines for the use of brackets. There are indeed. Academic style guides such as the...
methodaz posted a blog entry
The A-Z of Correct English by Angela Burt
Introduction from authorThe A–Z of Correct English is a reference book which has beenwritten for the student and the...
Introduction from authorThe A–Z of Correct English is a reference book which has beenwritten for the student and the...
DesignBump.com posted a blog entry
More Typographical Tattoos: Punctuation!
i posted the 1st of this series a while back. this one is all punctuation tattoos! The quotation one at the end is especially...
i posted the 1st of this series a while back. this one is all punctuation tattoos! The quotation one at the end is especially...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Routing around
Photo captions must be hard to write. Or at least they’re hard to get right. Yahoo! Shine makes a few minor errors (and...
Photo captions must be hard to write. Or at least they’re hard to get right. Yahoo! Shine makes a few minor errors (and...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Dressing up a raven for Halloween
With “link” on the mind, the writer of this bit from Yahoo! Shine made an error exactly like this one:Putting a...
With “link” on the mind, the writer of this bit from Yahoo! Shine made an error exactly like this one:Putting a...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Find out what punctuation is extraneous
Yahoo! HotJobs gives us a question mark that misses the mark:The sentence simply is not a question. What salary should you...
Yahoo! HotJobs gives us a question mark that misses the mark:The sentence simply is not a question. What salary should you...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Totally off the track
The Yahoo! front page is really off the track with this one: A training station has been substituted for a train...
The Yahoo! front page is really off the track with this one: A training station has been substituted for a train...
Jyhrus posted a blog entry
At least Oxford and Harvard agree over their comma
This is the endorsement I’ve been waiting for: Punctuation Man has decided to throw his support behind the use of the...
This is the endorsement I’ve been waiting for: Punctuation Man has decided to throw his support behind the use of the...
mooka bookmarked a link
A must read | dooce ®
Carol, that was three exclamation points and three question marks. Someone out there right now is trying to write a paper and can't because you used up all the punctuation.
Carol, that was three exclamation points and three question marks. Someone out there right now is trying to write a paper and can't because you used up all the punctuation.
leegrandin posted a blog entry
White Smoke ESL Software Review
White Smoke ESL SoftwareEnglish is a very difficult language to master , even for native speakers! But writing in English as a...
White Smoke ESL SoftwareEnglish is a very difficult language to master , even for native speakers! But writing in English as a...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Seeking a full list of hyphenated words
I don’t know if there’s a full list of words that should be hyphenated, but I do know that the hyphen that Yahoo!...
I don’t know if there’s a full list of words that should be hyphenated, but I do know that the hyphen that Yahoo!...
Dan Conderman posted a tweet
When angry notes are this funny, can we take them seriously?: Spelling: Fail.Grammar: Fail.Punctuation: Fai.. http://tinyurl.com/3raqpu
Elvie posted a blog entry
The whole cheesy enchilada
It would be funny if it weren’t so tragically awful. This excerpt from Yahoo! Shine has found the sweet spot in...
It would be funny if it weren’t so tragically awful. This excerpt from Yahoo! Shine has found the sweet spot in...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Fat-burning tip
The article that this link on Yahoo! Shine goes to gets it right and hyphenates fat-burning:Posted in Adjectives, Hyphens,...
The article that this link on Yahoo! Shine goes to gets it right and hyphenates fat-burning:Posted in Adjectives, Hyphens,...
betweenstations posted a tweet
from #mimasum08 yesterday: zefrank's punctuation advice - http://www.zefrank.com/punc/
FeeFiFoto posted a blog entry
Just Plain Silliness
I received this note from the guardian angel who supplies all my graphics:"Hey! I removed the exclamation points from the Fame...
I received this note from the guardian angel who supplies all my graphics:"Hey! I removed the exclamation points from the Fame...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Punctuation-saving titles
Perhaps it was in the interest of conservation of punctuation that Yahoo! Shine omitted the hyphen in this headline:Posted...
Perhaps it was in the interest of conservation of punctuation that Yahoo! Shine omitted the hyphen in this headline:Posted...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Why a question mark?
Why the writer of this Yahoo! Shine headline included a question mark is the real question:Maybe a word is missing (Why...
Why the writer of this Yahoo! Shine headline included a question mark is the real question:Maybe a word is missing (Why...
Elvie posted a blog entry
It scares the bejeezus out of us
It’s only a single sentence, but in it Yahoo! Shine manages to omit an apostrophe and introduce a typo:It’s the...
It’s only a single sentence, but in it Yahoo! Shine manages to omit an apostrophe and introduce a typo:It’s the...
Elvie posted a blog entry
All together is altogether different
All together now, repeat after me: Altogether means “entirely, completely, utterly.” This excerpt from Yahoo!...
All together now, repeat after me: Altogether means “entirely, completely, utterly.” This excerpt from Yahoo!...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Channeling Joey Tribbiani
I imagine that the writer of this excerpt from Yahoo! Shine has the same grasp of quotation marks that Joey Tribbiani...
I imagine that the writer of this excerpt from Yahoo! Shine has the same grasp of quotation marks that Joey Tribbiani...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Jennifer Hudson’s extra character, Eva Mendes’ mangling
Yahoo!’s front page gives Jennifer Hudson an extraneous apostrophe and mangles Eva Mendes’ name:Posted in...
Yahoo!’s front page gives Jennifer Hudson an extraneous apostrophe and mangles Eva Mendes’ name:Posted in...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Closely watched hyphen abuse
The closely watched front page of Yahoo! contains an extraneous hyphen:Posted in Adjectives, Adverbs, Hyphens, Modifiers,...
The closely watched front page of Yahoo! contains an extraneous hyphen:Posted in Adjectives, Adverbs, Hyphens, Modifiers,...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Upset blogger leaving ‘Terribly Write’?
Nah. I kid. I am a kidder. But this misplaced question mark on the Yahoo! front page isn’t so funny:Posted in...
Nah. I kid. I am a kidder. But this misplaced question mark on the Yahoo! front page isn’t so funny:Posted in...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Kim Kardashian review can’t deliver
The Yahoo! front page can’t deliver in this summary of “Dancing With the Stars”:Using that to refer to a...
The Yahoo! front page can’t deliver in this summary of “Dancing With the Stars”:Using that to refer to a...
Elvie posted a blog entry
There’s no debate here
This isn’t one of those hotly debated rules of grammar. Grammar geeks agree: If an adverb ends in LY, don’t put a...
This isn’t one of those hotly debated rules of grammar. Grammar geeks agree: If an adverb ends in LY, don’t put a...
Elvie posted a blog entry
60 Minutes isn’t an hour
It’s a TV show, and Yahoo.com missed the quotation marks around it:Posted in Punctuation, Quotation Marks,...
It’s a TV show, and Yahoo.com missed the quotation marks around it:Posted in Punctuation, Quotation Marks,...
Elvie posted a blog entry
Peg your leg over a keg
Every writer knows how important it is to maintain your readership by using correct grammar and spelling. And by making sure...
Every writer knows how important it is to maintain your readership by using correct grammar and spelling. And by making sure...
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