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Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

"The key to all good writing is understanding your audience"

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This is something I have been telling my students at Commits since I began teaching journalism in April 2003. Good writers understand this. ...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

How good is your grammar?

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Find out by taking these interesting and instructive grammar tests: 1. From the Daily Writing Tips blog 20 Questions 2. From the Daily ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

What a great intro!

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Only a journalist well-acquainted with the tools of her trade could have come up with this opening paragraph for a feature on rock 'n...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

How to avoid being a grammar goof

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Of the many grammar books I have had the pleasure of reading (yes, pleasure; and no, Wren & Martin is not on the list), Woe Is I is ri...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Is there no difference between "who's" and "whose"?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 9: "Who's" and "whose" may sound alike (they are homophones ), but surely literate people can ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Everything you always wanted to know about how to use punctuation marks (but didn't know whom to ask)

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There appears to be some confusion regarding the use of hyphens. For starters, many people are unsure about how a hyphen (-) is different fr...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Bad grammar, poor punctuation: a sure recipe for disaster at your workplace

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Yes, I am a Grammar Nazi. That is why, in 2010, I posted 50 rants on Facebook , at the rate of one rant a day. That is why, last month...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Who is a "cousin sister"?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 7: From an article in "Open" magazine -- "My first grown-up book was Jeffrey Archer’s As the Crow Flies,...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Good grammar is important for everyone, not just journalists

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There is a notion that it is important to have good writing skills, which would include a sound knowledge of the rules of grammar, only if o...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

"U" vs "You"

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 6: Didn't I tell u it's a charmed life? That's a sentence from the "Letter from the Editor" in...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Isn't there a difference between "who's" and "whose"?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 5: The Times of India Crest Edition of June 30 features an interview with poet and author Jeet Thayil by Naomi Canton...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

A question of illiteracy

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 4: Headline in the Economic Times, June 24 — "Why the big four Andhra Pradesh-based infrastructure companies GMR...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Starting trouble

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Can a sentence begin with "and"? Are you allowed to begin a sentence with "but"? These are two questions I'm asked e...

Upliftment? UpliftMENT?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 3: In The Times of India Crest Edition of June 23, Purnima Sharma interviews Salima Raza, writer and director of a ne...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

A prime example of an illiterate sentence

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 2: In "The Fantastic 40s", its cover story on June 24, The Economic Times on Sunday features Mumbai trauma ...