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• More madness from yahoo.com

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 120
  A simple typo might be forgivable, except when it appears on the Yahoo! front page , the busiest page on the Web: Not so forgivable? This mismatched subject and verb: Filed under: Misspellings , Subject-Verb Agreement , Verbs Tagged: bad grammar , grammar , grammar errors , grammar mistakes , ...
  6 days ago

• So say readers

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 120
  This sucks. So say readers of Yahoo! Shine  who can recognize when a verb doesn’t match its subject: But the writer’s not content to stop with two grammatical mistakes. She has no idea when to capitalize words. Unless she’s talking about a TV character played by Matt LeBlanc, joey shouldn’t get a ...
  1 week ago

• Action Verbs Good. Nominalizations Bad

  
  Precise Edit's Blog — Authority: 85
  What are nominalizations? Nominalizations are the noun forms of action verbs, as seen Table 1. Table 1: Sample action verbs and corresponding nouns (nominalizations) Sample action verbs Corresponding nouns illustrate fail react announce increase (v) illustration failure reaction announcement ...
  1 week ago

• Nice proofreading job

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 120
  How long did the reporter or his editor take to proofread this brilliant piece of redundancy from Yahoo! News ‘ “The Sideshow”? I’d guess it was less than a nanosecond. Much less. OK, if no one at Yahoo! News was going to proofread this article, couldn’t someone at least run a little spell-checker? ...
  1 week ago

• Sham ShamWow. Wow

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 120
  Wow. In one brief but skinny paragraph, the writer for Yahoo! Shine  manages to misspell ShamWow, Philipp Plein, and Christian Dior and commit a grammatical gaffe. Wow. Filed under: Misspellings , Subject-Verb Agreement , Verbs Tagged: bad grammar , bad spelling , Christian Dior , editing , grammar , ...
  2 weeks ago

• English Lesson: Past Habits with Used To & Would

  
  Free One-Point English Lesson From Happy English New York — Authority: 109
  As I mentioned the other day, I used to listen to jazz all the time, especially jazz guitarists. I would listen to such artists as Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass all the time and try to play along with... To read the rest of this lesson, visit my website at http:blog.myhappyenglish.com
  2 weeks ago

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