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grammar
UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/
p02pc9wq/episodes/downloads
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/may/19/
grammar-correct-language
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/apr/20/
grammar-snobs-are-patronising-pretentious-and-just-plain-wrong-video
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/feb/14/
mind-your-language-grammar-wars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/
bad-grammar-debate-gove-higson-letts
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/jun/02/
careers.work
grammar mistakes
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/25/
wait-is-that-a-rule-ten-everyday-grammar-mistakes-you-might-be-making
grammar snobs
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/apr/20/
grammar-snobs-are-patronising-pretentious-and-just-plain-wrong-video
grammar geezer
USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/
744121321/even-a-grammar-geezer-like-me-
can-get-used-to-gender-neutral-pronouns
grammar
USA
https://archive.nytimes.com/
afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/01/
530723046/using-music-and-rhythm-to-help-kids-with-grammar-and-language
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/03/
522463016/the-grammar-vigilante-defender-of-truth-justice-and-the-grammarian-way
Grammar and punctuation quiz
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/quiz/2013/feb/04/
grammar-punctuation-quiz-test
grammar rules
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/
steven-pinker-10-grammar-rules-break
grammar and usage
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/
grammar-and-usage
grammarian
USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/03/
522463016/the-grammar-vigilante-defender-of-truth-justice-and-the-grammarian-way
apostrophe
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/16/
mind-your-language-apostrophe
Doonesbury
Garry Trudeau
GoComics
February 05, 2023
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/02/05
adjective
USA
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/02/05
adverb
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/07/
in-defence-of-basically-steven-poole
preposition
USA
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/
1235354975/prepositions-are-permissible-now-will-english-language-be-ok
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/
1233663125/grammar-preposition-sentence-rule-myth-merriam-webster-dictionary
The New York Times > After Deadline
Phrases
We Love Too Much USA
https://archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/
phrases-we-love-too-much-5/
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Subject, Meet Verb USA
https://archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/
subject-meet-verb-5/
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Words We
Love Too Much USA
http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/
literary-analysis-or-burger-recipe/
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Favorite Grammar Gaffes: Who/Whom Confusion
USA
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/
for-whom-the-bell-tolls/
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cliché
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/cliche-watch-business-edition/
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split-infinitives
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/more-faqs-on-style/
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/to-boldly-go/
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overstuffed sentences
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/overstuffed-sentences/
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/simplify-simplify/
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Metaphor
Trouble
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/metaphor-trouble/
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Words We
Love Too Much
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/words-we-love-too-much/
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When
Spell-Check Can’t Help
https://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/when-spell-check-cant-help/
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Ill-Fitting Phrases
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/trouble-in-parallel/
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Describing ethnicity
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/hispanic-latino-or-what/
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Tangled
Passages
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/tangled-passages-2/
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Tangled
Passages > Period
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/tangled-passages-4/
The New York Times > After deadline > Quiz
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/red-pencils-ready-3/
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/red-pencils-ready-2/
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Misplaced
phrases
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/prepositions-on-the-loose/
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Using
words precisely > Missing the nuance
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/missing-the-nuance/
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Save the
Subjunctive!
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/save-the-subjunctive/
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Prepositional phrases
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/location-is-crucial/
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Colloquialisms and slang
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/kids-moms-n-stuff/
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Colons, Dashes and Trouble / punctuation problems
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/colons-dashes-and-trouble/
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More
Weary Words
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/more-weary-words/
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Murky
Passages
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/murky-passages/
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Subject,
Meet Verb
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/subject-meet-verb-2/
The New York Times After Deadline Quiz
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/red-pencils-ready-5/
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Ambiguous
antecedents and dangling modifiers
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/loose-connections-2/
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Spelling
Check
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/spelling-check/
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When
Spell-Check Can’t Help
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/when-spell-check-cant-help-4/
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What
Readers Expect
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/the-little-things-2/
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A Bit
About ‘That’
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/a-bit-about-that/
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Colloquialisms
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/news-not-chatter/
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The
Trouble With ‘Like’
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/the-trouble-with-like/
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Parallel
Problems
https://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/parallel-problems/
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Number
trouble / Tripping over singular and plural
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/number-trouble-2/
The New York Times > After deadline > Bright
passages / Sparkling prose
http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/bright-passages-15/
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/bright-passages-4/
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/bright-passages-5/
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The Chitchat Patrol /
Slang and colloquialisms
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/the-chitchat-patrol-2/
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Phrases We Love Too Much
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/phrases-we-love-too-much-2/
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Bright
Passages / Sparkling prose
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/bright-passages-8/
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Subject,
Meet Verb
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/subject-meet-verb-3/
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Some
proofreading tips culled from years of journalism tip sheets
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/the-readers-lament/
sentence
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/mar/25/
dickens-sentence-worst-writer-bulwer-lytton
sentence diagramming
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/22/
341898975/a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences
The curious art of diagramming sentences
was
invented (...) by S.W. Clark,
a schoolmaster in Homer, N.Y.
USA
His book, published in 1847,
was called “A Practical Grammar:
In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences
Are Classified According to Their Offices
and Their Various Relations to One Another.”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/
a-picture-of-language/
clause
syntax
gerund
USA
https://www.gocomics.com/stevekelley/2023/11/11
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