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Grammar Giggles – She Was Found Where?

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While the subject of this story is not in the least bit funny and I don’t intend to poke fun at a murder, I am quickly losing any respect for our news agencies. I appreciate that they are all trying to get the news out first, but they really should take the time to actually read what they’re putting out there. While the headline leads you to believe the woman’s body was in a truck, the story confuses that issue by saying she was in the “truck of a vehicle.” On the plus side, at least they were consistent.

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Grammar Giggle – You Earned The Title, At Least Spell It Right!

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This was on a letter that we received in our office recently. For some reason, people don’t feel the need to proof inside addresses, signature blocks, and pleading party and service information. That information is important, particularly when you misspell your own title in what should be some kind of macro or automatic fill so that it looks the same every time. The same is even more true for email, since that is what we use most. Go and check your signature block right now to make sure it is correct and if you had to change something, let me know.

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Happy National Grammar Day!

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March 4 is one of my very favorite holidays. It is National Grammar Day! What could be better than that? Although this picture is absolutely correct. In my world, every day IS National Grammar Day.

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According to Wikipedia, the holiday was started in 2008  by Martha Brockenbrough, the author of “Things That Make Us [Sic]” (2008) and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. In honor of this holiday just made for Proof That proofreading blog, I’ve added a little something I found on the Internet. So go crazy with your Facebook posts and emails and I’ll try not to judge–today. Tomorrow I will be back on the search for good Grammar Giggles!

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Grammar Giggles – So Nice Of News Stations To Keep Me In Material

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I keep thinking that if I ever want to change my line of work, all of my local news stations could sure use someone to type their screen verbiage. A friend sent me this one and I only saw the errant apostrophe until I was working with the picture here and saw the hot mess of an attempt at the second use of the word “closing.” The apostrophe in “it’s” is only used as a contraction of “it is” and not to signify possession by “it” of anything– that would simply be “its” as in “closing its doors.” And you spelled “closing” correctly once, what the heck happened to the second one? In this case, two strikes and you’re out!

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Grammar Giggle – A Perfect Compliment And Complement to Valentine’s Day

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While I have the utmost respect for our clerk of the court being open on a weekend to issue marriage licenses and then our court being open in order to perform marriage ceremonies on Valentine’s Day (which was a Sunday this year), this court announcement caught my eye while I was looking for something else:

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At first glance, it brought out the “ah, isn’t that sweet” in me, but the first sentence of the second paragraph had me gagging on my coffee. According to dictionary.com, “compliment” is an expression of praise, commendation, or admiration, for example “She paid me an enormous compliment on my dress,” while “complement” is something that completes or makes perfect, for example “A good wine is a complement to a good meal.” So you can see that the fact that the court was offering free weddings was a COMPLEMENT to the issuance of marriage licenses. It completed and made perfect the whole Valentine’s Day wedding theme they had going on. One way to remember the difference would be that a complIment is something I like to hear, while a COMPLEment COMPLEtes something. I hope they were complimented on their thoughtfulness in being open on a weekend to do this for couples who wanted to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the ultimate fashion, but I also hope they learn the difference between “compliment” and “complement.”

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