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• Rethink Reform

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
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  1 week ago

• It’s a two-for-one deal on Yahoo! Shopping

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 134
  Whoa! How do you make two mistakes in a single word? If you write for Yahoo! Shopping , it’s pretty easy: Even if the writer had used the possessive pronoun its (instead of the contraction it’s ), the word would still be wrong. Why? Because the antecedent of the pronoun is jackets , a plural. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• What’s uglier than Uggs?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 134
  Could it be this description from Yahoo! Shopping ? The writer seems to be suffering from a bit of schizophrenia, unable to decide if Ugg is an acronym deserving all caps or a simple proper noun. Even more serious is the mismatched subject and verb and the weird use of the contraction it’s . Even changing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Writers who need to check themselves

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 134
  Writers should check for themselves that the words they use actually exist; otherwise, they could be creating a brand-new pronoun and error, like this one on Yahoo! omg! : Posted in Pronouns, Wrong words Tagged: funny writing errors, funny writing mistakes, pronoun, themselves, wrong word, Yahoo!, Yahoo! omg!
  3 weeks ago

• The best and worst writing on the Web

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 134
  OK, so I lied about the best writing on the Web. And maybe this isn’t the worst writing on the Web. It’s just two of the many errors that appear on Yahoo! every day. This time they’re from Yahoo! Shine : I don’t know how a professional writer can confuse the contraction it’s with the possessive ...
  3 weeks ago

• Three-year-olds are sensitive to semantic prominence during online language comprehension: A visual world study of pronoun resolution

  
  COMD News — Authority: 151
  Recent evidence from adult pronoun comprehension suggests that semantic factors such as verb transitivity affect referent salience and thereby anaphora resolution. We tested whether the same semantic factors influence pronoun comprehension in young children. In a visual world study, 3-year-olds heard stories that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pronoun trouble

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 560
  Most newspapers will accept, and occasionally print, Letters to the Editor; a few others will also accept voice messages from readers. I like the idea, generally, but it has its drawbacks, as Fishersville Mike notes : Unfortunately, speaking a rant into the phone may not work out on the printed page. A punctuation ...
  4 weeks ago

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