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Matt Loney ZDNet UK

When we ran an article titled 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid, we were hoping to lend a little help to IT types who are often (wrongly in our view) stereotyped as being poor communicators. The fact that it was deluged with Talkbacks pointing out your own pet peeves shows how close this subject is to your hearts — and perhaps how much you desire to get it right.

Some of you took issue with the title of the piece, suggesting that it should have been “10 flagrant grammatical mistakes”, or that your worst pet peeve is lists of pet peeves “that the author calls ‘grammatical’ but that have nothing to do with grammar — rather, that have to do with spelling”. A real grammatical error, you pointed out, is on the order of subject-verb agreement, or mistaking a fragment for a sentence, or mistaking a transitive verb for an intransitive one, and so on. “These aren’t grammatical errors,” wrote one of you. “With the exception of number 9, all of the supposed grammar mistakes are actually spelling or word selection mistakes,” wrote Ed T.

Well, perhaps so, but headlines tend to have grammatical rules all of their own.

Quibbles about the headline did not stop many of you suggesting your own pet peeves when it comes to grammar mistakes (sic). Here is the top 20 list, according to your feedback on our top 10. And yes, like our original list, it veers less towards grammatical mistakes and more towards errors in word selection. Even so, get them wrong, and you risk making yourself look stupid.

20. Plurals: “You left out my #1 pet peeve of all time, plurals. CD’s, PC’s, even car’s. OK, sometimes people get confused when dealing with acronyms, but seriously, car’s?!?!” One anonymous reader got it right when they wrote: “When will people remember that apostrophes are for contractions and ownership?”

19. Pleural/Plural: Let’s at least get that one out of the way.
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Michael Leddy teaches college English and blogs at Orange Crate Art.
Author: Guest Author

Student-writers often believe that the secret of good writing is a reliance upon bigger and “better” words. Thus the haphazard thesaurus use that I wrote about last month. Another danger for student-writers involves the assumption that good writing is a matter of stuffy, ponderous sentences. Stuffy sentences might be explained by the need to make a required word-count, but I see such sentences even in writing assignments of only modest length. Most often, I think, these sentences originate in the mistaken idea that stuffiness is the mark of serious, mature writing.

A writer can begin to unstuff a sentence by looking closely at each of its elements and asking if it is needed. Here is an extreme example:

To begin, it is important to note that the theme of regret is an important theme in “The Road Not Taken,” which was written by Robert Frost, and that evidence for it can be found throughout the entire poem.

“To begin”: Like “to conclude,” this phrase is an unnecessary, empty transition. If a point is coming early (or late) in an essay, trust that a reader can see that. Removing “To begin” involves no loss of meaning.

“It is important to note”: Focusing on a point implies that the point is worth writing about, doesn’t it? Removing these words too involves no loss of meaning. (As an undergraduate, I often wrote “It is interesting to note,” until a professor drew a line through the words each time they appeared in an essay.)

“The theme of regret is an important theme”: It’s redundant to say that the theme is a theme. And is there any difference between “the theme of regret” and regret?
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Michael Leddy teaches college English and blogs at Orange Crate Art.
Author: Guest Author

Last month I showed how to unstuff a sentence by removing unnecessary words. This month I’ll offer a quick-and-dirty guide to punctuating a sentence. Nothing that follows is meant to substitute for the nuanced explanations of what’s usually called a writing handbook, the sort of book that college students purchase in a first-semester writing course. These five rules though have the virtue of being manageable, which is difficult to say of a 1,000-page book. In each paragraph that follows, the sentences illustrate the punctuation rule involved. Note that I’m avoiding almost all grammatical terminology. Instead, I’m emphasizing a small number of sentence patterns.

Rule one
If your sentence begins with an introductory element, put a comma after it. Even if it’s a short element, put a comma after it. In time, you’ll be putting this comma in without having to think about it.

Rule two
Any element which interrupts the movement of the sentence, whether it’s big or small, should be set off with commas. This sentence, like the first, also has an element set off with commas. An element that appears at the end of the sentence should also be set off with a comma, as I’m showing here.

Rule three
Items in a series should be separated with commas. What do I mean by “items in a series”? Wine, women, and song. Life, love, and laughter. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.

Rule four
Complete sentences that are joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet) need a comma before the coordinating conjunction. That might seem obvious, but this comma frequently gets left out. Putting it in makes a sentence more readable, and any reader appreciates that.

Rule five
Complete sentences that are joined without a coordinating conjunction need a semi-colon instead of a comma; the semi-colon shows the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next. Semi-colons are often followed by a connecting word or phrase; however, a connecting word or phrase is not necessary. Sentences joined with only a comma are called comma splices; they’re among the most common errors that come up in college writing.

(Note: In the next-to-last sentence in the previous paragraph, there’s a comma after however because it’s an introductory element in the second sentence.)
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Sissi 有一个 Mini 篮球架， 她十分喜欢打篮球。在爷爷的训练下，她已经可以单手灌篮啦！为了挑战更高的难度，奶奶决定将篮球架升高一节，并想在底座里加入沙子让球架更稳固。

于是奶奶在 Sissi 的工具箱里寻找她的玩具小铲子，可怎么也寻不着，便问 Sissi ：＂Sissi ！ 小铲铲在哪儿？＂Sissi 一听，扭头跑向沙发，然后爬上沙发，在沙发的角落里翻出了她的小铲子。

姨奶奶说，以后要找什么东西，都可以先向 Sissi 打听一下。

Normal the Ubuntu bootup screen is not with a nice resolution. When you want to change it, do it following steps.

And you can cancel the bootup-splash easy. At the line

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-28-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash

remove the quiet and splash options.

In my computer i have installed the Swiftfox statte original Firefox. The Swiftfox is a preferment optional Firefox. For my old computer it is a nice browsers. Additional i have installed a few extensions.

• Adblock Plus
• Adblock Filterset.G Updater
• del.icio.us Bookmarks
• Flashblock
• Google Toolbar for Firefox
• Greasemonkey
• ScrapBook

These are the necessary nice extensions for me. Adblock Plus, Adblock Filterset. G Update and Flashblock avoid the fast all Ads. in the websites. Google Toolbar is a nice tool bar for firefox. It can help you search and a few other usable functions like translate on screen, mark the highlight. And the new version can integrate to the firefox search layout. It take only more fewer space the top. ScrapBook is a very good web informations collection plugin.

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