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• The Business of Government (BusinessWeek)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 454
  
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• Knock it off!

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 142
  Why would a headline appear with two errors? Designer-inspired looks are better with a hyphen in the compound adjective and someone should knock off the space in  knockoffs. Why do errors appear in great big letters? Because this is Yahoo! Shine . Posted in Adjectives, Hyphens, Misspellings, Modifiers, ...
  1 day ago

• Tips and tricks - Item Descriptions

  
  Blogasaurus — Authority: 108
  As both a buyer and seller of handmade goods I thought I would start posting some of things that sellers do that could make me not buy their stuff. So I figure I would start with item descriptions. 1. Do NoT tYpE lYkE dIs -  I don’t care  if you are a tween typing in sticky caps is a surefire way for me to ...
  5 days ago

• Adjective phrases: answer to exercise

  
  Language Log — Authority: 660
  Let me return to the issue of wildly incompetent grammar text writing and the question ( which I posed here ) of whether and how you can find three adjective phrases in the following list of word sequences: thank you said Jim Janet ran home the poor injured duck a shivering and frightened give me ...
  5 days ago

• Doing more thinking, writing, pondering that’s not related to school

  
  where it's @ ! — Authority: 124
  …for a change! ===== I dickered around with some elements of poetry, trying to make them all make sense… but all I was able to come up with were related fragments of my own desires… This all came from thinking about things and people in my life. One of my Facebook statuses last night was something along the ...
  1 week ago

• Find the adjective phrases

  
  Language Log — Authority: 660
  Now for another piece of evidence ( I gave one here ) that even if you have no clue about grammar you can write grammar textbooks or reference handbooks and make good money by doing so. Here is an exercise set in Pupil Book 4 in the Nelson Grammar series (published by Thomas Nelson, now Nelson Thornes Ltd in ...
  1 week ago

• Why I Let Others Make Jokes For Me That I Wish I Could Make, Oddly Small Numbers in Pakistan, and How Crickets Sing Like the Tabernacle Choir

  
  Fire In The Bones — Authority: 110
  This last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review has an essay about how to choose what to write next that cracked me up. It’s by Colson Whitehead , who has also written John Henry Days and, most recentl y, Sag Harbor . I have to admit I haven’t read either one of those novels and probably won’t, but I ...
  1 week ago

• Can’t Write Articles For Links? Write Code!

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 158
  If you’ve subscribed to an seo newsletter for longer than a week, you’re well aware that writing articles with tips and advice pertaining to your website’s subject is a great way to generate links and traffic. But what if you can’t write or are afraid to write? Well, if you can write software, you’re still ...
  1 week ago

• Mystery solved! Gwyneth Paltrow is not a physician

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 142
  The mystery has been solved. The Terribly Write blog post just before this one showed the mashup of a photo of Ms. Paltrow with a headline about doctors. Well, the writer for  Yahoo! Shine  corrected the error. Or at least corrected the photo and accompanying teaser: Of course, the “correction” omitted ...
  1 week ago

• Is your writing out-of-date?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 142
  Is your doctor out-of-date? If your doctor is Gwyneth Paltrow, you have more to worry about than antiquated info: OK. I confess, I know this headline from Yahoo! Shine  is wrong. It has nothing to do with Ms. Paltrow. It’s just an unfortunate, irrelevant, and humorous goof that also happens to be devoid ...
  1 week ago

• An Honest Film Review Of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 150
  Have you been to wager the newborn Harry Potter film? I went to the wager the film terminal period with my fiancée and digit children. My digit children were very hot to check the film and were kinda impatient as we cosmopolitan to the cinema. In this article I module be writing our possess individualized [...]
  2 weeks ago

• College Study Tips – 8 Tips to Ease Your Reading

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 154
  Sometimes ordinary reading methods may not help you to remember the chapter content well. You feel the reading is tough and get bogged down in this murky reading assignment. You can try the following reading techniques which help to ease the reading and help you to remember what you have read better. Tip 1: Read it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shauna Sand Signs Off On Sex Tape!

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 164
  So much for fighting to be a decent human being! Lorenzo Lamas ’s ex-wife, former Playboy model Shauna Sand ’s sex tape will no longer be released against her will because the mother of three signed off on it! Co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment, Steven Hirsch brought in a handwriting expert to prove that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Madonna Gets Down And Dirty In Africa

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 164
  Madonna just keeps doing good! The Queen of Pop and mother of four was spotted Monday in Malawi at the ground breaking ceremony for her Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. The Material Mom was there in support of her new center and even helped plant a tree at the location. Her madgesty arrived in South Africa yesterday ...
  2 weeks ago

• In the footsteps of Robert Langdon

  
  Language Log — Authority: 660
  Language Log readers may recall the link I gave to the Vulture Reading Room discussion of The Lost Symbol on the New York Magazine website, where I made some comments on the extraordinarily heavy use Dan Browns book makes of redundant (either pointless or already implicit) attributive modifiers. I illustrated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do you like correct grammar or Yahoo! Shine?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 142
  Do you like clean-shaven and clean-cut hyphenated? (They should be.) Do you like sentences that make sense? If you do, you probably won’t like this headline and teaser on Yahoo! Shine : Posted in Adjectives, Hyphens, Misspellings, Modifiers, Punctuation, Unnecessary Words Tagged: clean-cut, clean-shaven, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jean Paul Gaultier: The latest target

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 142
  OMG. Why would an alleged professional writer in the world of fashion add a hyphen to Jean Paul Gaultier? I guess if you’re capable of writing nonsense like this, you’re not going to be conscientious about spelling: I have no idea what that first sentence was supposed to be. I do know that the compound ...
  3 weeks ago

• Witnessing the Comeback: My Game 4 Story

  
  Phillies Nation — Authority: 591
  Come up with all of the adjectives you’d like for Game 4 of the NLCS, because they all fit here.  Yesterday, yet another chapter was etched into the Phillies annals, this time by a scuffling star. Cliff Lee made his mark on this series, and Ryan Howard is doing his best Lou Gehrig impersonation, so Jimmy Rollins ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dick Vitale is still young at 70

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Mercer, Oct 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Dick Vitale is still energetic at 70.“I act about 12. I hope that never changes,” he said.He talked about everything a man who started his career, from teaching the sixth grade to the NBA to headline broadcaster could cover, all relating to work ethic, honesty, passion, drive and ...
  3 weeks ago

• I wish it were the grammar gods

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 142
  I wish it were the grammar gods that spoke to the writer of this article on Yahoo! Shine  and turned her away from random capitalizations: Or the typo-spotting gods to help with removing unintentionally humorous errors: Or the put-a-hyphen-in-there gods to create a compound adjective: Or the ...
  3 weeks ago

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